Hugo’s Graveyard

Many believed convicted pharmacist Michael Jason Kerkowski, along with his girlfriend Tammy Lynn Fassett, fled the United States to avoid being sentenced for insurance fraud and illegally selling prescription painkillers. More than a year after Kerkowski and Fassett were last seen, the mystery ended when their bodies were unearthed from a shallow grave behind the Kingston Township, Pa, home where Kerkowski’s “”best friend”” Hugo Marcus Selenski lived. The discovery of the bodies led investigators to uncover a burn pit with charred human remains belonging to three people. The investigation into Selenski consumed Northeastern Pennsylvania for more than a decade with an aggressive media hungry for facts, courtroom battles between a demanding judge and a young district attorney, a carousel of judges assigned to Selenski’s cases, and a defense attorney indicted by a grand jury for perjury and witness tampering. Days after being charged with murder, Selenski escaped from the maximum security floor at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility using 15 bedsheets tied together to descend 70 feet, which led to a massive weekend manhunt until he surrendered from the scene where the bodies of Kerkowski and Fassett and the human burn pit were found. Who turned on Selenski? Paul Weakley, whom Selenski met while he served a federal prison sentence for a bank robbery. Why did they kill Kerkowski? Selenski needed money to cover a check his girlfriend had issued for the closing cost when she purchased the Kingston Township property. Fassett was in the wrong place at the wrong time when Selenski and Weakley initiated their plan to rob and kill Kerkowski. — ASIN: B0DDQXL8LF | ISBN13: 9798325692406 | ISBN-13: 979-8325692406