PITTSBURGH -- Sentencing for a Pittsburgh man found guilty of third-degree murder has been postponed while authorities search for the victim's body.

Bryan Sedlak, 37, of the Greenfield neighborhood, was found guilty of killing Patrick Kenney, 22, of Jefferson Hills.

Kenney disappeared after leaving his parents' home around dinnertime one night in February 2005. Sedlak was convicted, even though Kenny's body had never been found.

Channel 4 Action News' Ari Hait reported that on Friday, Sedlak's attorney called prosecutors and said her client was ready to lead them to the body.

Officers searched an undisclosed area for eight hours and recovered vertebrae, tailbone and a right and left femur. All of the bones showed evidence of being cut by a power saw, Hait reported.

The district attorney said the remains are being sent to a lab for DNA testing. The results are not expected for four to six weeks.

Because of the new developments, Judge Jeffrey Manning postponed sentencing until Aug. 11.

Sedlak testified that he shot Kenney at the former Water's Edge tanning salon, which Sedlak was renovating in Homestead, because Kenney tried to attack and rob him after they spent hours doing cocaine together.

Sedlak was also found guilty of abuse of a corpse because the jury did not buy his story that the body was moved by a friend who never told Sedlak what he did with it.

Kenney's sport utility vehicle was found parked on a street near Sedlak's home shortly after he disappeared, but Sedlak was not charged until two years later, when county police got accounts from a witness who saw Sedlak with the body rolled up in a carpet at the tanning salon.

Sedlak faces a maximum possible sentence of 20 to 40 years in prison. The judge indicated Sedlak may get a lighter sentence if he led authorities to Kenny's remains.

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