YOUNGSTOWN — Samuel Legg III, 51, will remain in a Columbus mental hospital, Judge John Durkin ruled Wednesday after a mandatory six-month hearing on Legg’s mental health.

Last October, the judge ruled that Legg could not be restored to competency to stand trial for the murder of Sharon Kedzierski of Florida, whose body was found behind a former truck stop in Austintown in 1992. Durkin sent Legg to Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare in Columbus. Legg lived in Ohio and Arizona.

A recent evaluation indicated there had been no change in Legg’s mental status, and he is unable to understand the nature and objectives of the criminal proceedings against him, is unable to assist in his defense and remains a mentally ill person subject to a court order.

Legg will be evaluated again in two years and have another hearing before Durkin.

Authorities could not identify the badly beaten body of Kedzierski, 43, in 1992, but did so 20 years later using DNA. Her death was from blunt-force trauma to the head, face and chest, a coroner ruled.

DNA also identified Legg as a suspect after an Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation analyst took a new look at unmatched DNA samples in 2017.