Sedlak convicted of third-degree murder in 2005 slaying

A Greenfield man will spend 19 to 38 years in prison for killing a former Thomas Jefferson High School hockey star and dumping his dismembered remains over a hillside.

An Allegheny County jury convicted Bryan Sedlak, 37, in February of third-degree murder for shooting Patrick Kenney, in February 2005.

Kenney disappeared four years ago. After Sedlak was convicted he led police to remote area of Greenfield where they found nine of Kenney's bones, including four vertebrae as well as the top portions of right and left femurs, a pelvis, a tailbone and a rib fragment.

Sedlak told police the rest of the body was chopped into small pieces and dumped over a nearby hill by a friend helping him to dispose of the body.

Sedlak told jurors during his trial that he killed Kenney in self-defense because Kenney was trying to rob him of drugs and money. The two had been doing cocaine together earlier that day.

Calling the help in finding the body "too little and too late," Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey A. Manning imposed a sentence that is just two years shy of the maximum.