Jury convicts Pa. man with bodies in yard

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — Authorities have wanted to put Hugo Selenski away on murder charges ever since they searched his northeastern Pennsylvania yard in 2003 and found the bodies of a missing pharmacist, the pharmacist's girlfriend, and at least three other sets of human remains.

It took nearly a dozen years and one failed prosecution, but they finally got their man on Wednesday after a jury convicted the 41-year-old career criminal in the strangling deaths of pharmacist Michael Kerkowski and Tammy Fassett.

Selenski, already serving a long prison sentence on unrelated robbery charges, now faces a potential death sentence after the jury concluded he killed the couple during a 2002 robbery and buried their bodies behind his house. He had little to say as he was led out of the courthouse.

"Not now," he told reporters. "I always told all of you that I will talk to you when this is over, and I will do that. No questions right now."