WAILUKU >> Jury deliberations will resume today in the trial of a man accused of murdering his pregnant ex-girlfriend.

Deliberations began Dec. 1, following the conclusion of closing arguments from the state and defense, as well as a rebuttal argument from the prosecution.

On the ninth day of deliberations, the court received communication indicating that the jury was “divided.” In a subsequent communication the jurors said they decided to deliberate further to “feel more confident in their own personal vote decision.”

The trial began more than six months ago, with the state introducing 71 witnesses and entering hundreds of items into evidence.

Steven Capobianco is standing trial on charges of killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend, Carly “Charli” Scott. He is also accused of setting her vehicle on fire in February 2014.

Scott was 27 years old and five months pregnant at the time with an unborn child fathered by the defendant. Capobianco has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

The defendant is the last person known to have seen Scott alive. In the days following Scott’s disappearance, Capobianco had done an interview with police in which he said Scott had picked him up on the night of Feb. 9, 2014, and dropped him off at his truck that he said got stuck in Keanae on Feb. 8.

According to the account, both headed back to Haiku, with Scott following Capobianco in case his vehicle broke down again. Scott was reported missing the next night on Feb. 10, 2014.

The defense argued that marks left on a jawbone recovered from Nuaailua were consistent with scoring from a pig or wild boar.

Several witnesses for the prosecution said the marks were consistent with a knife. Dr. Lindsey K. Harle, a forensic pathologist with Clinical Labs of Hawaii, testified that incision injuries were likely inflicted by “someone attacking her with a sharp object” or someone using a knife to “essentially de-flesh the bone.”