A mistrial was declared in the murder trial of a man who was charged with burning cheerleader Jessica Chambers alive in a car in Mississippi.

Quinton Tellis, 29, will be retried in the burning death of Chambers, 19, after jurors spent more than 10 hours deliberating before saying they were deadlocked on Monday in a Batesville courtroom.

He had been charged with capital murder since her December 6, 2014 death occurred during the commission of another crime, third-degree arson.

Tellis did not take the stand in his own defense during the trial that began last Monday.

Prosecutor John Champion said during the trial that Tellis thought he suffocated Chambers while they were having sex before he drove her car to a back road.

Champion said that Tellis ran to his sister's house nearby, jumped in his sisters' car, stopped to pick up gasoline from a shed at his house and torched Chambers' car and her.

Firefighters testified that Chambers told them someone named 'Eric' or 'Derek' set her on fire.

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Jessica Chambers was found burned and zombie-like when she walked out of the woods in December of 2014 trying to say her attacker's name. She died hours later

Quinton Tellis, 29, was charged with capital murder in the burning death of Jessica Chambers. The jury was deadlocked and a mistrial was declared after two days of deliberation

Prosecutors said that Tellis set Chambers and her car (pictured) on fire in a rural back road and left her to die

Some first responders said Chambers looked like a 'zombie,' with burned skin and hair, when she walked from a wooded area in Courtland (above) She died hours later in a nearby hospital

Tellis had pleaded not guilty to the capital murder death, as his defense attorneys argued that the wrong man was on trial.

Some first responders said Chambers looked like a 'zombie,' with burned skin and hair, when she walked from a wooded area in Courtland. She died hours later in a nearby hospital.

Champion said Chambers' throat was damaged and she could not pronounce the letter T. He said she could have been trying to say 'Tellis.'

Investigators said they questioned about 10 to 15 people named Eric or Derek, and all were cleared.

The horrific circumstances surrounding Chambers' death garnered national attention amid concerns about violent crime in rural communities.

The trial was emotional, with witnesses breaking down and spectators crying as jurors were shown graphic photos of Chambers' burned stomach and face.

Ashley Chambers, Jessica's sister, muffled her reaction, during the closing argument of the trial

Ben Chambers, Jessica's father, wiped a tear away during closing arguments of the case

Tellis' family members sat in court on Monday when the judge declared a mistrial in the case

A burn doctor testified Chambers had so much damage to her mouth, throat and chest that she would be unable to properly say and pronounce words while she was speaking to firefighters.

Agents studied more than 20,000 cellphone numbers and interviewed more than 100 people during their investigation.

Prosecutors used cellphone location data and video surveillance footage from a store across the street from Tellis' home in an attempt to prove he was with Chambers the night she was burned.

During early interviews with law enforcement agents, Tellis said he only saw Chambers on the morning of the day she died.

His mother, Rebecca Wright, hugs another family member outside of court after the mistrial was declared on Monday

Police said Chambers (left) had been associated with Tellis (right) for about two weeks before she was killed but her family had no idea who he was

After being confronted with more evidence during another interrogation more than two years later, Tellis acknowledged that Chambers picked him up in her car at about 5.30pm that night, and said they spent about 1 ½ hours together, according to videotaped interviews played for the jury Friday.

Tellis faces another murder indictment in Louisiana, where he's accused in the torture death of Meing-Chen Hsiao (above)

Investigators concluded that Tellis and Chambers were together until around 7.30pm, and showed the jury a video recording of a vehicle appearing to be Tellis' sister's, stopping at Tellis' house at 7.50pm and staying for about two minutes before heading toward the crime scene.

Tellis, who had faced life in prison without parole if convicted, told investigators he kept a 5-gallon container of gasoline in a shed at his house.

Tellis faces another murder indictment in Louisiana, where he's accused in the torture death of Meing-Chen Hsiao, a 34-year-old Taiwanese graduate student at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.

No trial date has been set in that case.