Fourteen Warren County voters are being selected to travel to Hattiesburg to serve as jurors or alternates in a capital murder trial there.

The selection process began Monday at the courthouse here, and Warren County Circuit Clerk Shelly Ashley-Palmertree said the jury will be chosen from 350 Warren County citizens summoned at random.

Using questionnaires and in-person interviews, prosecutors and defense attorneys are seeking a panel to hear the case of a woman accused of killing two Hattiesburg residents and taking their bodies in a freezer to Kansas.

If found guilty, a second phase of the trial will follow, and Lisa Jo Chamberlin could be sentenced to be executed for the March 2004 deaths of Vernon Hulett, 34, and his 37-year-old girlfriend, Linda Heintzelman.

Judge Bob Helfrich, circuit judge for Forrest and Perry counties, ordered that a jury be selected from outside Forrest County, and Warren County was selected.

Jurors chosen here will be housed in Hattiesburg and sequestered for the duration of the case.

Forrest County Circuit Clerk Lou Ellen Adams is one of about 14 court personnel who traveled here for the jury selection, including prosecuting and defense attorneys, court bailiffs and a court reporter, she said Monday at the courthouse.

Also facing the same charges is a cousin of Hulett’s, Roger Lee Gillett. Helfrich set an April trial date for Gillett last week, Adams said.

Both were named in a July 2004 indictment alleging murder and robbery of Heintzelman and Hulett on March 20, 2004.

The victims’ bodies were found on March 29, 2004, when Kansas authorities searched an abandoned house for drugs near a farm owned by Gillett’s father in Luray, Kan. Hattiesburg police said one of the victims was decapitated and both bodies had their arms removed.

Judges can seek to limit the chance jurors have been exposed to pretrial information by moving the trial to a different county or importing a jury.

In this case, Warren County will pay the expenses of jury selection and bill Forrest County for all costs incurred.