Suspect in slaying of co-worker, employer, faces death penalty

Bill Gang

Thursday, July 29, 1999 | 10:59 a.m.

The district attorney's office has announced that it will seek the death penalty for a man charged with murder in the shooting deaths of his boss and a co-worker at an air-conditioning company late last year.

Jack Seka is scheduled to stand trial Sept. 13, but Deputy District Attorney Ed Kane said he expects that will be postponed because Wednesday's announcement likely will prompt the defense attorneys to file motions challenging the move.

Seka has been charged with two counts of murder and two counts of robbery in connection with the deaths of Eric Hamilton, 34, and Peter Paul Limanni, 33.

Limanni was the manager of Cinergi Air Conditioning and Heating, 1933 Western Ave., where Seka and Hamilton had been employed. Limanni disappeared Nov. 6.

The boss was being sought by Metro Police in connection with the murder of Hamilton, whose body was found Nov. 16 off Las Vegas Boulevard South, just south of State Route 146.

Police believed Hamilton had been murdered at the air conditioning business and his body hauled away to the rural location for disposal.

Police had interviewed Seka at the now-defunct business after Limanni's disappearance on Nov. 6, but there wasn't enough evidence to connect him to Hamilton's death, and Limanni's murder had not been discovered.

Limanni's bullet-riddled body was found Dec. 23 in the desert near Nipton Road, about a mile east of Interstate 15 near Mountain Pass, Calif.

By then Seka had left Las Vegas. A warrant was issued for his arrest March 5. Seka was arrested in Philadelphia in April and extradited to Las Vegas to face charges.