Trial date scheduled for alleged killer of Danielle Stislicki
A trial is scheduled for the accused killer of Danielle Stislicki, a Farmington Hills woman who went missing more than four years ago.
Jury selection is set to begin Oct. 12 in Oakland County Circuit Court for the case against Floyd Gal- loway, Jr., charged with first-degree premeditated murder in Stislicki’s death.
Stislicki was a 28-yearold Farmington Hills resident who went missing in December 2016. Her body has not been found.
Galloway, 34, was a former security guard at a MetLife building in Southfield where Stislicki worked, and was the last known person seen with her.
Investigators believe Galloway was attracted to Stislicki but she didn’t feel the same way. It’s also believed Galloway concocted a ruse about car trouble on the day she went missing to get a ride from her and then killed her in his Berkley home.
An Oakland County Medical Examiner determined Stislicki was the victim of some type of assault, possibly strangled to death.
Galloway is serving a 16 to 35-year prison sentence for the kidnapping, criminal sexual conduct and assault of a woman in Hines Park in Wayne County that happened three months before Stislicki vanished. The conviction, however, can’t be used as evidence in Galloway’s upcoming trial, as ruled by the Michigan Court of Appeals. Appellate court judges said there aren’t strong similarities between the two cases to demonstrate motive, contrary to what the prosecution believes.
The judges’ decision affirms a ruling by Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Phyllis McMillen, who had said a jury could be unfairly prejudiced if allowed to hear about the other case. However, a case docket number regarding the Court of Appeals decision is listed, as of March 3, with the Michigan Supreme Court where an application is pending.
The attorney general’s office is prosecuting the case.