Ex-con with bones in yard denies murders

An ex-con who lived on property where authorities found as many as 12 sets of human remains pleaded not guilty Thursday to killing a pharmacist and the man's girlfriend. Prosecutors said they planned to seek the death penalty against Hugo Selenski, 32. Police unearthed the bodies of Michael Kerkowski, a pharmacist linked to drug dealing, and Tammy Lynn Fassett three years ago on Selenski's property north of Wilkes-Barre. Court documents said Selenski strangled Kerkowski and Fassett, both 37, at Kerkowski's home in May 2002, and later stole tens of thousands of dollars that Kerkowski had given to his father for safekeeping. Kerkowski, who once called Selenski his best friend, had pleaded guilty to selling more than 330,000 doses of painkillers without prescriptions and was awaiting sentencing when he and Fassett disappeared. Police were led to Selenski's property by Paul Weakley, who said he helped Selenski move Kerkowski's and Fassett's bodies from their original burial place behind a school.

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