Being home today and bored I started looking at my hits from different searches on awstats. In the past 2-3 weeks I've received well over 100 hits for searches on Hugo Selenski. Why? What's the big deal about Hugo?

I posted, twice on him in the past few weeks. One making light of the jail escape, the second making light of people hitting my site looking for his picture:

So I decided to dig a little deeper on what is so fascinating and what people are looking for.

Hugo Selenski an ex-convict who was released from a federal prison in 2001 for robbery after serving 7 years. In early June remains of five victims were found in Selenski's property in shallow graves in Kingston Township which is about 110 miles north of Philadelphia.

A pharmacist Michael Kerkowski and his girlfriend Tammy Fassett were two of the victims found. You can find some of Kerkowski's background story here.

Paul Weakly who spent 10 years in jail on bomb-possession charges before his release last year, was facing a string of burglary, theft and federal gun charges, had allegedly flunked a series of drug tests required as a condition of his probation when he began offering information about Selenski. Some of the information was credible which led to the discovery of the bodies, but parts of it haven't been verified and doesn't even seem likely.

Mixed up in all of this is Patrick Russin, a longtime friend of Selenski’s who police said confessed to being present when the pair shot and killed a pair of alleged drug dealers, Frank James, 29, and Adeiye Keiler, 22, last May. You can read some of the story here.

So in my quest to find out "What the Big Deal is about Hugo Selenski" I emailed one of the commentors from one of the previous posts. She wrote me back. Her response:

I am from the Wilkes-Barre area and have known Hugo for over 15 years! I am extremely surprised by the number of comments people make regarding him. Some women around the country want to meet him because he's cute. Did they forget he is an alleged murderer? Also the comment on your website (which I know does not reflect your opinion) said he is a normal guy who is doing us a favor by killing drug dealers. I can't help but laugh at these people who must be in a very warped place in their lives. People are intrigued because there are so many people and twists involved that it's interesting, I guess! Some guy in South Carolina actually started a website www.hugoselenski.com. He doesn't even know anyone from this area. It's a little weird, don't you think?

Yeah, I think it's a little weird. I think it's just a little weird that I'm getting all these hits on my site about him.

So again, if you found this post by doing a search on Hugo, what's the big deal?