After deliberating for almost two days, jurors ended the week without reaching a verdict in the retrial of a 40-year-old man accused of killing a Palm Springs retiree in a financial-enrichment scheme and dumping his body by Interstate 5 while en route to Daly City.

Jury deliberations began Thursday in the retrial of a 40- year-old man accused of killing a Palm Springs retiree in a financial- enrichment scheme and dumping his body by Interstate 5 while en route to Daly City.

A 40-year-old man accused of killing a Palm Springs retiree in 2008 risked everything for a promise of fortune by helping to kill a man who was simply looking for companionship, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday, but a defense attorney insisted that his client was falsely accused and used as a pawn in the deadly scheme.