Brian Giles pleads nolo contendere but mentally ill to third-degree murder in Jilly Todaro death
Plea entered Oct. 26, 2026; recommended sentence 15 to 30 years, sentencing set for Nov. 24 before Judge Tamara R. Bernstein.
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 2020, with a recommended sentence of fifteen to thirty years. The plea comes six years after Todaro’s disappearance and two years after her body was found in the basement of a Franklin Street apartment in Johnstown; Giles, who is already serving a life sentence for the 2018 first-degree murder of his wife Nancy, will be sentenced on November 24 at 1:30 by the Honorable Tamara R. Bernstein.