LAS VEGAS (AP) — It’s a murder trial with all the elements of a Sin City made-for-TV drama: A tempestuous relationship between two passionate Las Vegas stage performers who traded accusations of domestic violence but kept returning to each other until one was dead.

Lawyers and a Nevada judge began selecting a jury Monday to hear the murder case against Jason Omar Griffith, who is accused of strangling Deborah Flores Narvaez during a heated argument and dismembering her body.