FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CAMBRIA COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE PRESS RELEASE

October 26, 2026

Cambria County District Attorney, Jessica F. Aurandt, releases the following:

​On October 26, 2026, Brian Giles entered a plea of Nolo Contendere but Mentally Ill to Murder of the Third Degree for the killing of Jilly Todaro in December of 2020 with a recommended sentence of fifteen (15) to thirty (30) years of incarceration.  This plea comes six (6) years from Ms. Todaro’s disappearance and two (2) years from the discovery of her body in the basement of an apartment on Franklin Street in the City of Johnstown.  

Mr. Giles will be sentenced on Tuesday, November 24 at 1:30 by the Honorable Tamara R. Bernstein.  He is currently serving a life sentence for the First DegreeMurder of his wife, Nancy, in October of 2018.