The murder trial of Bryce Schubert, the Beaverton man accused of kidnapping and killing nurse Melissa Jubane in 2024, won't begin until Sept. 7, 2027, after a Washington County judge in Hillsboro granted at least the third postponement in the case.

The new date means the trial will start almost exactly three years after Jubane, a 32-year-old newlywed, disappeared from her Beaverton apartment on Sept. 4, 2024. She had been home barely a day from her wedding and honeymoon in Hawaii.

Schubert's new defense attorneys, the father-son team of Stephen Houze and Jacob Houze, filed a motion on Wednesday, Aug. 12, requesting the delay because of a conflicting trial in another county, according to OregonLive. Washington County Circuit Judge Rebecca Guptill granted the motion.

The Houzes replaced Schubert's previous attorneys, Gregory Scholl and Shelley Aschenbrenner, in late May. The Portland-based firm has represented clients in high-profile Oregon criminal cases, including University of Oregon football player Traeshon Holden and Dave's Killer Bread co-founder Dave Dahl.

Schubert, 29, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping and abuse of a corpse. He has been held in the Washington County Jail since his arrest in September 2024. Like Jubane, Schubert also worked as a nurse, employed at Providence Portland Medical Center from September 2022 to October 2023, according to KGW. He lived in the same Beaverton apartment complex as Jubane.

Prosecutors allege Schubert was "deliberately cruel" in the manner he killed Jubane. They are seeking a life sentence and have filed motions to ensure that, if convicted, he would not be eligible for release after serving a minimum of 30 years.

Jubane was last believed to have locked her apartment door shortly before 6:30 a.m. on Sept. 4, 2024. She never arrived for her shift at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center that morning, and her car remained in the complex's garage. Police found her body and arrested Schubert days later.

One earlier postponement was granted to give the Oregon State Police crime lab time to process evidence.

The case has been heavily sealed. The Washington County District Attorney's Office has repeatedly obtained protective orders from Judge Guptill shielding the specifics of the allegations, the evidence against Schubert and where police found Jubane's body. At Schubert's September 2024 arraignment, he was not visible to anyone in the courtroom except the judge and court officials.

Jury selection is scheduled to begin Aug. 31, 2027, and last four days at the Washington County Courthouse in Hillsboro. The trial is set to start the following week.