Gay porn producer Joseph Kerekes, who originally insisted he was innocent, has pleaded guilty to the stabbing and arson murder of business rival Bryan Kocis.
Investigators believed Kerekes and an accomplice worried that Kocis' rival gay production company would prevent them from signing a porn star named Brent Corrigan, so they confronted him.
That confrontation ended in what the police investigators working on the case described as one of the most gruesome crime scenes they'd ever seen.
Kerekes was immediately sentenced to prison for life with no chance of parole after his guilty plea.
The plea was to a second-degree murder charge, admitting he was an accomplice in Kocis' brutal January 2007 murder.
Kocis' throat was slashed and his house burned down. Kocis was stabbed more than 20 times and was nearly decapitated.
Investigators believe Kerekes and his partner, Harlow Cuadra, traveled to Kocis' Pennsylvania home to kill him because he was a rival in the gay porn business.
At his court appearance, Kerekes said Cuadra "had murdered Bryan Kocis and had set his home ablaze." Kerekes then apologised to Kocis' mother, sister and father.
Michael Kocis said, "We will never forgive nor will we forget what Mr Kerekes has done to this family."
Kerekes has refused to testify against Cuadra. "I absolutely will not testify for the state case against Harlow," Kerekes said after his plea.
Cuadra's trial is slated to start in January, if found guilty of first-degree murder, Cuadra may face the death penalty.
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