Last October, for the second time, a jury announced they could not reach a verdict in the trial of Quinton Tellis, a man accused of setting 19-year-old Jessica Chambers on fire on the side of the road.

Chambers died from her injuries. Tellis, charged with capital murder, has been tried twice for her death. Each time the trial has ended in a mistrial.

What happened to Jessica Chambers?

Chambers,19, was discovered on Herron Road in Panola County on the night of Dec. 6, 2014, moving away from her burning car. With burns on 98 percent of her body, she was airlifted to a Memphis hospital where she died Dec. 7 of her injuries. The cause of death was listed as thermal injury.

Tellis and Chambers were together the night she was set on fire. Tellis has pleaded not guilty.

The two trials in Mississippi

Tellis was indicted in February 2016.

The first trial, in October 2017, ended in a mistrial after confusion surrounding jury instructions. The instructions said that a guilty verdict had to be unanimous, but didn't directly say that about a not guilty verdict. Officials said it appeared the jury thought that, since they couldn't unanimously decide that Tellis was guilty, that made him not guilty.

During the trial, defense attorney Darla Palmer said the name Chambers uttered in her final moments pointed to someone other than Tellis. Multiple first responders testified that Chambers said someone named "Eric" set her on fire.

"'Eric set me on fire.' She didn't say any other name, she didn't mention any other person," Palmer said at the time. "She said 'Eric did this to me.'...She didn't know the person's last name. She knew Quinton. Quinton Tellis is his name."

District attorney John Champion offered a minute-by-minute data outlined by witnesses the last couple of days of Chamber's life, including her interactions with Tellis, and a field trip for the jury to see the burned-out car, the prosecution did little to answer Chamber's seemingly saying 'Eric."

In the second trial, the prosecution presented two expert witnesses who testified that, with the extent of her injuries, anything Chambers said would have likely not been audible.

After the second mistrial, Champion said, "We've talked about for the last year, how do we make ourselves better? We felt like bringing the speech pathologist in...we thought that made us better. We had 12 wonderful jurors who did their job, and they just couldn't agree."

Quinton Tellis facing murder charge in Louisiana

Tellis is also facing a murder charge in Monroe, Louisiana, in the August 2015 death of Ming-Chen Hsiao, who was a recent University of Louisiana-Monroe student. She was stabbed more than 30 times.

In May 2016, Tellis pleaded guilty to unauthorized use of Hsiao's credit card and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Tellis is currently in the custodyof the Ouachita Correctional Center in Monroe.

What's next for Quinton Tellis?

Tellis' fate in Mississippi has not yet been publicly announced. Champion could not be reached for comment.

In Louisiana, Tellis has a status hearing in Louisiana scheduled for Oct. 23, the News Star reported. He has pleaded not guilty to the murder charge.

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