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[ Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2003 ]

Police to meet for Song case

Collegian Staff Writer

Ferguson Township Police Department officials said yesterday they plan to meet with the Luzerne County Police Department tomorrow to discuss the investigation of missing Penn State student Cindy Song.

"Right now both departments are working separately," Ferguson Township Police Detective Brian Sprinkle said. "We are going to get together to see what we can get done together."

Both Ferguson and Luzerne County police are looking into a possible connection between the disappearance of Song and the case of Wilkes-Barre resident Hugo Selenski.

He is charged with killing two people whose remains were exhumed from the yard of his home.

Selenski is also a suspect in the deaths of three other individuals whose bodies were also recovered by police from his property.

He escaped Friday night from the Luzerne County Correctional Facility by climbing down a 60-foot rope of bedsheets. At 8:45 p.m. Monday, Selenski was taken into custody after his attorney called to arrange for a surrender, said Trooper Tom Kelly, spokesman for the state police in Wyoming.

Selenski was taken to the Wyoming station for processing on escape charges.

Although officials are skeptical, the case provided them with possible leads in the Song case.

One of the five bodies found on Selenski's property remained unidentified last week, but Ferguson Township Police Chief Edward J. Connor said Song was not that victim.

"We are 100 percent positive that Cindy Song is not the unidentified victim," Connor said last Wednesday.

Paul Weakley, an alleged accomplice in the case, told prosecutors that Selenski had told him in April 2002 that he and Michael Kerkowski had abducted Song.

Kerkowski allegedly told him he "had his way with her" and kept her at his home until she died.

Song disappeared Oct. 31, 2001 after a Halloween party. Friends dropped her off at her West Clinton Avenue apartment still wearing her costume. She has not been seen since.

Several leads, a massive student-led push to discover her whereabouts and the use of a psychic have turned up little information about the case.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

 



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