Hugo Selenski is a convicted bank robber from Luzerne County, in Northeastern Pennsylvania, who was charged in 2003 with the murder of two of five people whose bodies were unearthed from his back yard. The 2006 trial lasted two weeks, with an acquittal on the murder charges. He was, however, found guilty on two counts of abusing a corpse. On May 1, 2006, Selenski was sentenced to two to four years for his crimes, although he will receive credit for the three years already served. This means serving at most only a single additional year for his crimes thus far. On the same day he was acquitted of the murder chargers, he was charged with the murder of two of the other people found on his property.<ref name="Meyer"/>
Selenski escaped from the jail where he was awaiting trial the week he was charged with the murders, on October 9, 2003. He and another inmate used bedsheets to escape from the Luzerne County Correctional Facility in the county seat of Wilkes-Barre. Selenski's partner in the jailbreak, Scott Bolton, was injured and hospitalized during the escape, but Selenski remained free. He turned himself in several days later. Selenski was subsequently moved to a state prison, also located in Luzerne County.<ref name="AP"/>
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