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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — A judge has dismissed the jury foreman in the murder trial of a Florida woman charged with killing her 5-year-old son in New Jersey in 1991. The move came Tuesday as the jury was set to return for a fourth day of deliberations in the trial of Michelle Lodzinski. She was charged in 2014 in the death of Timothy Wiltsey after investigators reopened the case. The judge didn't explain why the foreman was dismissed and replaced by an alternate juror, telling the other jurors that it was "personal and related only to him and has nothing to do with the other members of the jury." The dismissal was announced after Middlesex County prosecutors and defense lawyer Gerald Krovatin had gathered in a locked courtroom to discuss the juror issue. The judge also rejected a defense request to declare a mistrial due to the juror issues. Deliberations will now start over, and jurors were told to disregard whatever the foreman had said during the earlier discussions. Lodzinski, a resident of Port St. Lucie, Florida, first told authorities Timothy disappeared while they were at a carnival in Sayreville, New Jersey, then later said he had been kidnapped from there. Prosecutors say the boy was never at the carnival, and Lodzinski killed him elsewhere. Jurors are considering whether Lodzinski is guilty of murder, aggravated manslaughter or manslaughter.

Jury foreman tossed in trial of mom accused of killing son