2020年1月18日 · Lesko was sentenced to death — first in 1981 and again in 1995 after the original sentence was thrown out — for the Jan. 3, 1980, murder of Leonard C. Miller, a 21-year-old Apollo...

Dec. 27, 1979: Peter Levato, 49, of the North Side was carjacked by John Lesko and Michael Travaglia, both 21, in an alley behind the old Edison Hotel, a seedy Downtown Pittsburgh nightspot...

SOMERSET, Pa. — For most of his life, John Lesko has been sentenced to die. After confessing to his role in a series of grisly killings outside Pittsburgh, Lesko was put on death row in...

Lesko was sentenced to death — first in 1981 and again in 1995 after the original sentence was thrown out — for the Jan. 3, 1980, murder of Leonard C. Miller, a 21-year-old Apollo police...

John Lesko was sentenced to death by the State of Pennsylvania for four murders. According to court documents John Lesko and Michael Travaglia who were both 19 years old at the time would murder four people for a variety of reasons during a short crime spree.

2023年12月31日 · SALTSBURG, Pa. – 2023 came to a close with John Lesko still on death row in Pennsylvania, 43 years after he and his partner Michael Travaglia went on a killing spree in the late 1970s. Their horrific “Kill for Thrill” spree left four people dead at the end of 1979 and beginning of 1980.

2022年11月17日 · Lesko was convicted in 1980 of murdering multiple people across Western Pennsylvania, including a church organist and a police officer. Lesko’s partner, Michael Travaglia, died in prison five years ago of natural causes.

2022年5月18日 · The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Tuesday rejected 64-year-old John Lesko’s request for a new trial and sentencing hearing. He was convicted in the 1980 murder of Apollo...

2022年5月19日 · Lesko is on death row for the 1980 killing of 21-year-old rookie Apollo police Officer Leonard Miller. Lesko and his criminal partner, Michael Travaglia, were later...

2020年1月18日 · Police on Jan. 3 charged 21-year-olds Lesko, of Homestead, and Travaglia, of Washington Township, in the four homicides. Fifteen-year-old runaway Ricky Rutherford was arrested in connection with the deaths of Nicholls and Miller, but prosecutors dropped the charges against him after he testified against Lesko and Travaglia.