YOUNGSTOWN — A judge has ordered that Samuel Legg III remain in Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare in Columbus for another two years, and remain at the same protection level until his next hearing.

Judge John Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court found that Legg, 53, remains a “mentally ill person subject to hospitalization by court order and continues to require psychiatric hospitalization.”

Legg, a former truck driver, was charged with committing a murder at a former truck stop in Austintown in 1992. He also was accused of three other killings in Ohio and Illinois.

But in October 2020, Durkin ruled that time had run out for Legg to be restored to competency to stand trial in the murder of Sharon Kedzierski of Florida. Durkin also found that Legg needed to be confined to a state mental-health hospital and remain under supervision of the judge indefinitely.

Authorities could not identify the badly beaten body of Kedzierski, 43, in 1992, but did so 25 years — in 2017 — using DNA.