TUCSON, Arizona — A miscarriage of justice was declared after a jury in southern Arizona failed to reach a verdict for murder against a man accused of murdering a 6-year-old girl.

The Arizona Daily Star reported that a judge abandoned the trial on Friday in the trial against Christopher M. Clements, who was charged with murder in the death of Isabel Celis. Isabel was reported missing from her bedroom at her parents’ home in Tucson in April 2012.

In another case last year, Clements was sentenced to life in prison for the 2014 death of 13-year-old Maribel Gonzalez.

A separate Pima County Superior Court jury heard Clements’ murder trial involving Celis.

Attorneys pointed to a lack of physical evidence, including no fingerprints or DNA linking Clements and Isabel’s disappearance or death.

Prosecutors admitted it, but said the circumstantial evidence, including Clements’ computer and cell phone records, was “overwhelming.”

A convicted sex offender with a long criminal record, Clements was arrested in 2018 and charged with the deaths of 22 girls.

Gonzalez went missing while walking to a friend’s house in June 2014, and authorities said her body was found days later.

Celis’ body was not recovered until 2017. Authorities said Clements was identified as a suspect in March of that year after he led federal investigators to her body in exchange for dropping unrelated charges. Stated.

Authorities said Clements had nothing to do with Celis’ death and only knew the location of the body.