<table> </table> A Mission man who testified this year at the trial of his sister&#8217;s killer was charged Thursday with trying to murder his wife.</p><p>A special prosecutor appointed in the case charged John Wilson with attempted first-degree murder or, in the alternative, aggravated battery.</p><p>Michael A. Russell, Wyandotte County&#8217;s chief deputy district attorney, also charged Wilson with aggravated kidnapping, aggravated criminal sodomy and attempted aggravated arson, all felonies.</p><p>Wilson, 44, denied the allegations at a hearing Tuesday in Johnson County Court, according to court records.</p><p>The charges stem from a domestic violence assault Saturday at the Wilson home in the 6100 block of West 54th Street in Mission, authorities said. Wilson allegedly strangled and repeatedly slammed his wife&#8217;s head. He allegedly poured gasoline in the home.</p><p>Prosecutors say that Wilson&#8217;s wife of less than a year was treated for a fractured skull, a fractured rib, multiple cuts on her face and multiple bruises on her arms.</p><p>Wilson was accused earlier this year of another domestic violence battery against his wife. He entered a diversion program after he was charged March 10 with misdemeanor battery.</p><p>Wilson is the brother of Prairie Village murder victim Lizabeth Wilson. She disappeared in July 7, 1974, while she and her brother walked home from a Prairie Village pool. Wilson also testified this year at the Johnson County murder trial of John Henry Horton, who was convicted of killing 13-year-old Lizabeth.</p><p>At a news conference after the trial, Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline said that Wilson, who ran home ahead of his sister that day after the two had been told to walk together, carried an especially heavy burden. He was 11 at the time.</p><p>Horton has twice been tried and convicted in Johnson County for Lizabeth&#8217;s murder. The Kansas Supreme Court overturned his 2004 conviction. The second conviction came March 5.</p><p>Five days later, Wilson was charged with misdemeanor battery.</p><p>On Wednesday, Kline appointed the Wyandotte County district attorney&#8217;s office as special prosecutor in Wilson&#8217;s case to avoid a conflict of interest.</p><p>Kline spokesman Brian Burgess said Kline did not seek a special prosecutor in the misdemeanor case because Wilson quickly applied and qualified for diversion and none of the parties involved objected.</p><p>Kline immediately gave decision-making in the March case to the chief of his domestic violence unit, who had never had contact with the Wilson family.</p><p>However, the current case probably would have required a higher level of involvement by several members of the office, Burgess said.</p><p>Bond in Wilson&#8217;s case was set at $500,000.00.