Dig Up the Yard - Hugo Selenski (part one)

On the afternoon of May 3, 2002, Michael Kerkowski and Tammy Fassett were doing yard work when two visitors pulled into the driveway. When Michael's mother called, Tammy kept it short: "We have company."

Michael was a pharmacist from northeastern Pennsylvania who'd been caught selling hundreds of thousands of painkillers out of his own store, and he was days away from sentencing. The man he trusted to help him through it was his best friend, Hugo Selenski, a bank robber fresh out of federal prison who once tried to wash exploded dye out of stolen cash in his parents' washing machine.

When Michael and Tammy disappeared, police assumed Michael had fled. But Hugo knew exactly where they were. For months he sat with Michael's grieving parents, promising their son was alive and taking about $100,000 of their money, until the night a gun went off in their basement.

In part one of two, we cover a dream house on six wooded acres, a sweaty pair of men with brand-new shovels, a lie about a gas tank, a $500,000 story about Belize, and the moment an old prison buddy finally decided to talk.

Part two drops Friday. And over on Vanished Voices this week, we cover the disappearance of Penn State student Cindy Song, a case that became tangled up in this one. Look for that episode Thursday.

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