When the trial of a suspected serial killer gets under way in March, two of the originally charged slayings won’t be included in the case, a judge has ruled.

Terry Blair, 46, had been charged with killing eight women in 2003 and 2004 and dumping their bodies in Kansas City neighborhoods frequented by drug addicts and prostitutes.

But Jackson County Circuit Judge John O’Malley on Thursday dismissed the slayings of Nellia Harris and Sandra Reed. O’Malley said those cases could be tried later.

O’Malley also dropped charges in three rapes and an assault because they involve four living victims and different facts than the six murder cases.

If convicted of the murders, Blair could be sentenced to life without parole or the death penalty.

The trial is scheduled to begin March 10.