WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A court hearing for the leader of a group
of people that lived off life insurance payouts of its dead members
was postponed until March.

Thursday's preliminary hearing for Daniel U. Perez was
rescheduled at the request of his defense attorney. The hearing
will be held March 8.

Perez is accused of premeditated murder in the death of Patricia
Hughes at the group's Valley Center compound. Her 2003 drowning
death was originally considered an accident but was recently
reclassified as a homicide.

The 52-year-old Perez is also charged with rape, sodomy,
aggravated assault, making false statements on life insurance
policies, making false statements to obtain auto credit and sexual
exploitation of a child.

He is being held on a $2.1 million bond.