WINNIPEG -- The trial for the murder of a Fort Garry woman is set to be heard in court Monday.

Schuyler Vanwissens is charged with first-degree murder of Gina Swanson, a single mother who was brutally killed inside her home on May 14, 2011.

Swanson was found in her home on Edderton Avenue by her father, a retired police officer.

Police arrested Vanwissens , then 26,  in Toronto in August 2011 and charged him with first-degree murder and assault with a weapon.

Police have said Swanson and Vanwissen were strangers.