) ¢ Jy Se ES seseucy * ) @ Sunday, March 12, 2006 NE W S THE POST PAGE9 @ CONNECTION The double-murder trial of Hugo Selenski has gained local, state and national attention. Many of the people involved in the case - including the defendant, lead defense attorney and lead prose- cutor - are residents or natives of the Back Mountain. Here's just a sampling of people with local connections who are involved in the case: Hugo Selenski. The Dallas High School graduate and Kingston Township resident is charged with two counts of criminal homicide in the shotgun slayings of Frank James and Adeiye Keiler in May 2003. He could face the death penalty if convicted. Patrick Russin. The Dallas High School graduate has pleaded guilty to two counts of third-de- gree murder, robbery, abuse of a corpse and one count of criminal conspiracy to commit robbery. Russin, who says he was with Selenski when the killings took place, is a key prosecution witness. Demetrius “Tim" Fannick. The 73 Dallas High School graduate @: lead defense attorney for lenski. Fannick was a standout basketball player for the Moun- taineers and briefly played Divi- sion Il college basketball at Bloomsburg University. He lives in Dallas Township with his wife Mary Ann and their daughter Maggie. John Pike. The Dallas resident is one of Hugo Selenski's defense attorneys and has assisted Fannick throughout the case. Jim McMonagle. The Assistant District Attorney is the lead prose- cutor in the case. McMonagle, a native of Johnstown, has worked in the DA's office since 1993. The longtime Back Mountain Baseball, Inc. umpire lives in Jackson Town- ship with his wife Julie and their children, Courtney, Sean and Eryn. Chris O'Donnell. The Assistant District Attorney is part of the prosecution team. O'Donnell is a Dallas resident. Richard Krawetz. The Dallas resident is a lieutenant with the Pennsylvania State Police. Krawetz helped serve the first search warrant to look for bodies on Selenski's property and took cus- ody of the homicide suspect after © escaped from the Luzerne unty Correctional Facility. Ron Selenski. Brother of Hugo Selenski who was charged in June 2004 with supplying the shotgun used in the killing. Selenski lives in Dallas Township. Christina Strom. Strom is a for- mer girlfriend of Hugo Selenski. She owned the Kingston Township home where the remains of at least five bodies were found. Carey Bartoo. The Kingston Town- ship resident is a former girlfriend of Hugo Selenski. In 2005 she pleaded guilty to a federal fire- arms charge in connection with a Back Mountain burglary, along with several others including Russin. FANNICK Continued from Page 1 lawyer. The guidance counselor had other ideas. “He really discouraged me,” said Fannick, who graduated from Dallas in 1973. “He told me that I'd never be a lawyer and that I'd be better off becoming an ac- countant.” At first, Fannick took the ad- vice. He attended Bloomsburg Uni- versity, where he majored in ac- counting and played basketball for the NCAA Division II Huskies. But after one year at the school, Fannick came to two realizations: he’d never play in the NBA; and it was time to purse his lifelong dream. “I wanted to be a criminal de- fense lawyer,” said the son of Tony and Joan Fannick of Shavertown. “I don’t remember ever wanting to be anything else. I'm one of the fortunate people who knew what I wanted to do early in life. I felt that going to Wilkes (College) would give me a better chance at getting into law school.” Fannick thought about playing basketball at Wilkes before decid- ing against it. “It was an important decision, a tough decision,” he said. “I was a jock in high school. I loved play- ing basketball. It was a big part of - my life. But I knew I wasn’t going to be a pro basketball player. I de- cided to devote all of my time to study.” At Wilkes College, Fannick de- veloped a relationship with area attorney Charles Petrillo, who taught one of the law classes. Pe- trillo had also been the director of alegal clinic at Gonzaga Universi- ty in Spokane, Wash., and he helped Fannick get into the uni- versity’s law school. In the past decade, Gonzaga has become nationally-known for the success of its men’s basketball program. “I used to have to explain to ev- eryone where Gonzaga was,” said Fannick. “Now, people know.” Fannick says he never consid- ered anything but working asa de- fense lawyer. “Maybe it’s the excitement or the competitiveness,” he said. “I've always been a competitive person and there certainly are challenges. I couldn’t see myself sitting in an office doing corpo- rate work.” Fannick has fond memories of his basketball-playing days at Dal- las — even the times when he was RAN Fis FRE E ESTIMATE. A — ET BASEMENT? NORTHEAST PA 7 B-DRY® SYSTEM mdependent Licenses of BON System Ing WWW. ORYBASEMENT NET SCRANTON 344-2379 The B-DRY* SYSTEM has been proven to be MO UNIOUE & SO EFEECIIXE of eliminating bascaent water leakage, that it was awarded x 1986 United States Government Patent! era dacs vo awit wns sel Handmade fine Stoneware Pottery, created right on Main Street in Dallas. 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Fannick also has a 22-year-old daughter, Sarah, whois a senior at Christopher Newport University in Virginia. Despite the long hours working on the high-profile murder case, Fannick makes time to spend with his family — helping Maggie with her homework and sitting down to dinner. But after Maggie goes to bed around 9 p.m., Fan- nick locks himself in the “Hugo Room.” “It’s my oldest daughter’s bed- room,” he said. “It’s called the Hu- go Room around our house. There’s wall-to-wall paperwork. I'm there until the wee hours of the morning. My family has been great. There’s no way I could do this without them.” The Fannicks are hoping to spend a lot more time together af- ter the trial concludes, including a trip to DisneyWorld in early April. That’s after the father gets some much-needed rest. “It will take a few days to de- compress,” he said. “T'll also take some time to get caught up with everything. But first, I'll probably sleep for a day or two.” MCMONAGLE Continued from Page 1 McMonagle as a soft-spoken, community-minded Little League umpire. But more re- cently, tens of thousands of Lu- zerne County residents — and perhaps thousands more from across the state and the nation — have gotten to know him in a much more important role. “I’knew it was going to be a lot of work with a lot of long hours,” said McMonagle, who took over as the case’s lead prosecutor in November 2004. “And it has been.” Lately, the graduate of Juniata College and the Dickinson School of Law hasn’t had a lot of time for much else. An avid sports fan, McMonagle recently watched the second half of the Duke vs. North Carolina men’s basketball game on a late Satur- day night. It was the first game he’s seen all season. He also doesn’t have the time to follow the high-profile case in the newspaper. Instead, his brothers and parents have been following the trial on the Inter- “I knew it was going to be a lot of work with a lot of long hours. And it has been.” Jim McMonagle Lead prosecutor net and saving articles. “Once this is all over, maybe I'll sit down and read the arti- cles,” he said. McMonagle grew up in John- stown and attended Bishop McCourt High School. The son of James and Eileen McMonagle played varsity football as a run- ning back and defensive back. His father was a police officer for two decades. “People always said my father will arrest them and I'll make sure they go to jail,” said McMo- nagle. Jim and Julie McMonagle moved to the Back Mountain in 1993, when Jim was offered a job with the Luzerne County DA’s office. : The family quickly became ac- tive in the community. Jim volunteered his time as a Little League umpire, while Ju- lie has been active with the Back Mountain Recreation Complex, the Susquehanna Warrior Trail Council and the Anthracite Sce- nic Trails Association. She is the director of the Northeast Re- gional Office of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council. “We enjoy it here,” said Jim McMonagle. “It’s a lot like John- stown, a city in a valley sur- rounded by suburbs. I like my work. I try to make the commu- nity safer for my family and my neighbors to grow up in.” McMonagle says he’s looking forward to the end of the trial — and the upcoming baseball sea- son. “It’s going to be nice to spend a Saturday with my kids, or doing some umpiring, without having to worry about going to work,” he said. “But right now, I can’t see the forest for the trees. Dave Konopki is editor of The Post. You can e-mail him at dkonop- ki@leader.net. 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