PORTLAND – Jury selection began Friday in Cumberland County Superior Court in the murder trial of a Bridgton man accused of raping and fatally stabbing a woman in the western Maine town nearly 13 years ago.

Michael Hutchinson, a self-employed mason, lived a few miles from Crystal Perry at the time she was killed but was not a suspect until a tip to investigators last year led to DNA tests that investigators said produced a match.

Perry, 31, was found dead in the kitchen on the night of May 12, 1994, by her 12-year-old daughter, Sarah, who was asleep upstairs but heard a commotion when the attack began.

Hutchinson, 32, was required to provide a DNA sample when he was arrested on a probation violation a few years ago. The state police crime lab said his DNA matched that found in blood and semen on Perry’s body.

Testimony is expected to begin next week.