Jay, Okla. ? The Delaware County prosecutor filed paperwork this week to bring a Kansas inmate to Oklahoma to stand trial for the death of a woman who disappeared in 1996.

John Lee Weeks is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 29-year-old Barbara Johnson-Willard, whose remains have not been found. The Oklahoman reports that prosecutors will have 120 days to begin the trial after Weeks is transferred to Oklahoma.

Weeks is serving a 44-year sentence at a prison in Lansing, Kan., on unrelated convictions of aggravated kidnapping, rape and aggravated criminal sodomy.

Prosecutors say Weeks and Johnson-Willard were co-workers at Simmons Poultry Processing plant in Jay.

Prosecutor Eddie Wyant says he does not plan to seek the death penalty.