Associated Press - September 25, 2009 7:44 PM ET

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) - Jurors in the trial of an Aurora man charged in his daughter's disappearance are headed home for the weekend with no verdict after eight days of deliberation.

The jury's decision to skip lunch Friday raised speculation that it was close to agreement on the fate of Aaron Thompson, charged with fatal child abuse and dozens of other crimes in the death of Aarone (AIR'-uh-nay) Thompson.

But jurors left just after 4:30 p.m. and are scheduled to return Monday morning.

Thompson reported his daughter missing in November 2005, when she would have been 6. Authorities believed she may have died about two years earlier.

Thompson has since acknowledged she is dead. His attorneys say Aarone was killed by Thompson's live-in girlfriend, who died in May 2006.

Information from: The Denver Post, http://www.denverpost.com

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