MURDER TRIAL Convicted brothers admit killing man 36 years ago

They are expected to be sentenced today.
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Two brothers who had been in prison for almost 27 years for killing a judge's wife admitted another decades-old slaying on the day their trial was supposed to start.
Owen and Martin Kilbane were up for parole hearings in October. Now, they face three to 10 more years in prison for killing Andrew Prunella in 1968.
"I never thought they'd admit to it," Denise Hillier said Monday after the brothers pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of voluntary manslaughter in her father's death. "Finally, there's some closure."
Convicted
The Kilbanes were convicted in 1977 of the execution-style slaying of Marlene Steele, the wife of a Euclid municipal judge who hired the Kilbanes to arrange her murder in January 1969. Owen Kilbane was 21 and Martin Kilbane was 19 at the time of the woman's slaying.
The brothers could have been sentenced to new life terms if convicted of aggravated murder in Prunella's death. Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Richard McMonagle was scheduled to sentence the brothers today.
The Kilbanes' first trial for killing Prunella ended in a mistrial before McMonagle in 1983.
Owen Kilbane, 56, said he, and not his 54-year-old brother, should be held accountable for killing Prunella, whose body was never found.
"There was gambling debts, and the individual made threats against me before," he said in court. "There was a confrontation for some time, and we tried to resolve it. But we didn't, and the individual was killed."
Owen Kilbane did not dispute prosecutors' assertions that he and his brother beat Prunella and ordered a friend to shoot the pimp, gambler and FBI informant. They wrapped his body in chicken wire, weighted it down with a manhole cover and dumped it into Lake Erie.