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WILKES-BARRE, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Two bodies unearthed last week in a back yard were identified Sunday as belonging to a missing pharmacist and his girlfriend, and cadaver-sniffing dogs found two more suspected burial spots in the yard.

State police said the bodies were identified as those of pharmacist Michael Jason Kerkowski Jr., 37, and Tammy Fassett, 37. Luzerne County Coronor George Hudock Jr. said that both had been strangled.

Kerkowski and Fassett had been missing since May 2002, when Kerkowski failed to show up for sentencing on charges that he illegally sold prescription pills.

The remains were recovered Thursday behind the Kingston Township home of Hugo M. Selenski, who was arrested the same day for allegedly threatening and robbing the pharmacist's father.

Authorities hadn't ruled out the possibility of finding more bodies, and they may have made such a discovery.

"Apparently, they discovered two other sites of burial in that back yard. We're going there now to confirm," Hudock said Sunday afternoon.

Authorities concluded work at the site Sunday night but declined to say what, if anything, had been found.

Luzerne County District Attorney David Lupas declined further comment.

At state police barracks, officers met for about 10 minutes with Fassett's two sisters and her son, who left without speaking to a reporter.

Investigators said Kerkowski sold almost 334,000 OxyContin, Vicodin and Lorcet pills without prescriptions and filed $60,000 in false insurance claims. He pleaded guilty to two counts of distributing a controlled substance and two counts of insurance fraud and no contest to recklessly endangering another person and filing a false Medicare claim.

Shortly before his scheduled sentencing hearing, his relatives and Fassett's family filed missing-persons reports.

Investigators say Selenski, 29, forced the missing pharmacist's father to hand over $40,000 at gunpoint while he was at the father's house. Kerkowski had given the money to his father shortly before he disappeared, police said.

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