Homicide trial date set in bodies recovered case

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A trial date has been set in the oft-delayed homicide case against a man who had as many as a dozen bodies buried on his property.

Hugo Selenski is scheduled to go on trial June 27 in the deaths of Michael Kerkowski and Tammy Fassett, whose bodies were recovered from Selenski’s Kingston Township property nearly eight years ago.

Selenski is already serving a 32-year sentence for a 2003 home-invasion robbery. He faces more time after using a rope made of bed sheets to escape from the Luzerne County Correctional Facility that same year.

Last month, the state Supreme Court declined to hear Selenski’s appeal of an order allowing prosecutors to use testimony from Kerkowski’s father, who died in 2006.

Attorneys in the case are under a gag order.