Jurors were expected to begin deliberations Monday afternoon in Oxford County Superior Court in the trial of Agostino Samson of Windham.

Prosecutors say Samson killed 25-year-old Scott Libby of Raymond by strangling him and beating him with a frying pan. His body was in a car that was hit by a slow-moving train at about 2:45 a.m. on Feb. 20.

In closing arguments, Samson’s lawyer, Maurice Porter, said there’s no direct evidence linking Samson to the crime and that police failed to look at other possible suspects.

Meanwhile the state’s prosecutor, Assistant Attorney General Andrew Benson said there were two many connections between Libby and Samson for the evidence found in connection to Libby’s death to be coincidental. Evidence included blood and DNA samples found near Libby’s body and Samson’s room at the hostel he was staying at would have been too difficult for somebody else to plant, Benson told jurors.

But Porter also suggested that state police detectives on the case were, “myopic” in their investigation and overlooked key evidence, including looking closer at Libby’s phone and bank records, which may have linked others besides Samson to Libby’s death.

Porter also said that Samson wouldn’t have killed Libby because he was a friend and an employeer and people knew they were going to be meeting the night before Libby was found dead on the train tracks. He maintained his client never left the hostel and could not have planted Scott Libby’s body in the car on the train tracks.

The jury of eight women and four men was expected to begin deliberations after a lunch break which started about 1 p.m.

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