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By TERRIE MORGAN-BESECKER; Times Leader Staff Writer
Thursday, August 06, 1998 Page: 2A
WILKES-BARRE- Luzerne County Register of Wills Dottie Stankovic on
Wednesday appointed a neutral attorney to administer the will of homicide
victim Deborah Gorski while attorneys for her parents and husband battle about
who should control her estate.
The action comes one week after Gorski’s parents, Michael and Diane
Bogansky, filed court papers seeking to have their daughter’s husband, Dr.
Eugene Gorski, declared a “slayer”- a designation that would prevent him from
profiting from Deborah’s estate.
Eugene Gorski has not been charged with killing his wife, but the Boganskys
want him labeled a slayer based on a 1996 coroner’s inquest that ruled he was
responsible for the death.
Deborah Gorski died Aug. 10, 1996 in her Hazle Township home from an
overdose of an antidepressant. In their petition, the Boganskys claim Gorski
prescribed and dispensed the drug to Deborah, causing her death.
Stankovic said she met Wednesday with Ted Laputka Jr., attorney for Eugene
Gorski, and Bernice Koplin, attorney for the Boganskys, to resolve who should
be appointed to administer the estate valued at more than $86,000.
Stankovic said that by law, Eugene Gorski has the first right to be
appointed to the position, but the Boganskys objected, requesting they be
named.
“With everything going on here, I felt the best possible thing to do here
was appoint a third party,” Stankovic said.
Stankovic said she named attorney Peter Hoegen Jr. of Hazleton. She said
she thought Laputka and Koplin were satisfied with the decision, but the
attorneys immediately sought a hearing with Court of Common Pleas Judge
Chester Muroski, who heads Luzerne County Orphans’ Court.
Koplin said Muroski will deliver an order to Stankovi