New Jersey(Washington Insider Magazine) -A man accused of killing five people in two states of the country received his first sentence: 35 years in prison for the beating to death of a former mentor, who allegedly sexually abused him as a child.
Murder of 5 People
Sean Michael Lannon, a man accused of killing five people in two states across the country, received his first sentence: 35 years in prison for the beating to death of a former mentor.
Lannon, 48, pleaded guilty in October to the March 2021 murder of 66-year-old Michael Dabkowski. Gloucester County prosecutors said Lannon broke into the victim’s home in East Greenwich, NJ, killing him at blows with a hammer, recalled Pix11.
After being arrested days later in St. Louis, Missouri after a multi-state manhunt, Lannon surprised authorities by confessing that he had committed 16 homicides in total. He told New Jersey investigators that the alleged killing of him included “11 drug dealers,” NJ.com reported. But he has only been charged with five homicides, including his “ex-wife and his boyfriends in New Mexico.”
Dabkowski had mentored the defendant and his twin brother when they were children in the 1980s participating in a youth program. Lannon told investigators that Dabkowski had sexually abused him as a minor and that he had gone to the house to retrieve sexually explicit photos, but no evidence was ever presented in court to support that claim.
Lannon, who was sentenced Wednesday, still faces murder charges in New Mexico stemming from the brutal death of his ex-wife and three other close associates: Jennifer Lannon, 39, Matthew Miller, 21, Jesten Mata, 40, and Randal. Apostalon (60) were found dead and decomposed in a van at the Albuquerque International Airport in March 2021.
A “bad smell” led Sunport airport security to discover the bodies, some of which were dismembered, local media reported. Miller and Mata were friends of the couple, and Apostalon was apparently killed after helping Lannon move the containers where he had stored the first bodies without knowing what they contained.
This article is written by EI Diario.
