A murder trial that was set to begin next month in Warren County will be rescheduled.

Warren Circuit Judge Chris Cohron said Monday that the March 24 date for the trial of David Proffitt is no longer available on the court’s schedule.

Proffitt, 28, is charged with murder, first-degree strangulation, abuse of a corpse, theft by unlawful taking and three counts of second-degree forgery, all stemming from an investigation into the death of 22-year-old Alexandra Hemmann.

Warren County Commonwealth’s Attorney Kori Beck Bumgarner said during a hearing Monday that she and Proffitt’s court-appointed attorney, Jeb Dennis of the Department of Public Advocacy, would work on finding another trial date.

The March trial date was itself a rescheduling from a previously proposed September, 2025 beginning due to the unavailability of a prosecution witness to testify in person.

Cohron said he would schedule another pretrial conference to hear any motions that might be filed ahead of the trial.

Proffitt is accused in the indictment against him of killing Hemmann on or about Aug. 4, 2023, by impeding her airway.

Hemmann’s body was found eight days later on Aug. 12, 2023, in the bedroom of her Winners Circle apartment after her friends became concerned about her and the Bowling Green Police Department was contacted to conduct a welfare check.

According to prior court testimony, two of Hemmann’s friends received messages from her Snapchat account that claimed that Proffitt was at a local hospital being treated for seizures, but when they called hospitals in the area to find out where to send a care package, they learned Proffitt was not listed as a patient anywhere.

City police entered Hemmann’s apartment using a spare key and detected an odor of decomposition.

Officers forced their way in to a locked bedroom, where they found her body under a blanket.

“It would be apparent that there was some amount of trauma to her face,” BGPD Detective David Grimsley testified at a 2023 preliminary hearing in Warren District Court.

Hemmann was last seen in the company of Proffitt on Aug. 3, 2023, which was also the last date that anyone else reported speaking with her, Grimsley testified.

Both Hemmann’s and Proffitt’s vehicles were missing when police first responded to the apartment complex, and investigators relied on information from license plate reader cameras to locate Hemmann’s car in Fishers, Indiana.

Police in Indiana found Proffitt at a TopGolf in Fishers and found Hemmann’s phone in an Indianapolis-area hotel room.

Credit and debit cards belonging to Hemmann were found in Proffitt’s possession, and police believe Proffitt deposited a couple of checks into an account belonging to Hemmann, Grimsley testified.

After being taken into custody, Proffitt allegedly confessed to the homicide.