WILKES-BARRE — Pressed to name the unidentified body recovered from a burn pit outside a Kingston Township residence where convicted double killer Hugo Selenski lived in 2003, Patrick Russin said he did not know but sarcastically blurted out, “Ask your wife, she might have slept with Hugo.”

Russin, 50, made the the remark as he was led out of the Luzerne County Courthouse after a brief turbulent proceeding before Judge David W. Lupas on Tuesday.

In November 2003, Russin pled guilty to his role in the shotgun murders of Frank James and Adeiye Keiller outside Selenski’s residence on Mount Olivet Road and burned their bodies in a pit in May 2003.

Investigators on June 5, 2003, served a search warrant on the property for the remains of missing pharmacist Michael Jason Kerkowski, 37, and Tam

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