COURTLAND, Va. (WAVY) — A jury will resume deliberations Tuesday morning in the murder trial of James Goodwyn Jr. in the 2019 death of Cynthia Carver. Goodwin is charged with first-degree murder in Carver’s stabbing death at her home on Everett Street in Newsoms. Southampton murder ca se underway involving woman stabbed, dumped in Suffolk swamp She was reported missing in February 2019, but her body was not found until almost a month later in a marshy area of Suffolk near a logging trail. Goodwyn was arrested in June 2019 and has been behind bars ever since. The jury deliberated for more than two hours Monday afternoon, but did not come to a verdict. The Commonwealth said all the evidence points to Goodwyn as the killer of Carver — DNA, phone records and shoeprints left at the murder scene. But Goodwyn’s defense attorney told the jury that another man Carver was having an affair with was the real killer. Deputy Commonwealth Attorney Tina Colvin told the jury in her closing argument that Goodwyn stabbed Carver six times, when just one of those wounds would have killed her. Carver was having a sexual relationship with a married man from North Carolina, Dominic Hockaday, right up until the time she was killed. Defense Attorney James Ellenson said in closing arguments that Hockaday is the true killer because he didn’t want Carver telling his wife about the affair. The day after Carver was killed, she was due to start work at the same corrections center where Hockaday’s wife, Antonya, was already working. She did not find out about her husband‘s two-year affair until last week, after he had testified in Goodwyn’s murder trial. The jury is considering first-degree murder, second-degree murder or a not guilty verdict for Goodwyn. ...read more read less