Mounties in the Vancouver Island city of Duncan have confirmed a local man has been arrested for the suspected murder of two women.

A jury of nine women and three men has been selected to try the case of a man accused of killing an eight-year-old girl.

The Montreal mother accused of the first-degree murder of her three daughters and her husband's first wife testifies she lied to police when she said she was at the scene where the women died.

The woman accused of fatally stabbing two other women from Toronto in the heart of Atlantic City's tourism district Monday morning suffers from schizophrenia, according to her family.