Pennsylvania

Trial Looms, Decade After Bodies Found in Pennsylvania Yard

More than a decade after their bodies were found in his backyard, a Pennsylvania bank robber is going to trial for the murders of a drug-dealing pharmacist and the pharmacist's girlfriend.

Jury selection in Hugo Selenski's capital trial is scheduled to start Monday in Wilkes-Barre.

That's about 8 miles from the bodies of Michael Kerkowski, Tammy Fassett and at least three other people were found in June 2003.

Questions remain about the admissibility of a witness's police statements and testimony from a deceased witness, but the judge opposes more postponements.

It's the closest the 41-year-old Selenski has been to trial for Kerkowski and Fassett's deaths. A jury acquitted him in 2006 in the shotgun deaths of two other people found in the yard, drug dealers Frank James and Adeiye Keiler.

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