Authorities are still investigating claims made by a man charged with manslaughter in New Jersey, who said he killed a total of 16 people in several states.
NEW YORK – Authorities are still investigating claims of a man charged with manslaughter in New Jersey, who said he killed a total of 16 people in several states, although law enforcement officials confirmed Sunday that he was the main suspect was found in the murder of his ex-wife and three others in a car in New Mexico.
Local law enforcement officials in New Mexico and in New Jersey are working with federal agents on the truth of Sean Lannon’s claims, including that he killed 11 other people, the official said. The officer, who had direct knowledge of the investigation, could not discuss the investigation in public and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
Authorities said in court documents that Lannon, 47, made the acknowledgment in a call to a family member, who told investigators he regretted it.
Investigators are searching for records and other police reports of missing persons to identify potential victims and determine if he was telling the truth during the confession. Investigators are still investigating electronic records, communications, surveillance videos and financial documents as part of the investigation and are locating additional witnesses in the case, the official said.
Law enforcers are also trying to gather more information to better understand why he was in St. Louis. Louis was, where he was arrested on March 10th.
The case began on March 5 when the bodies of Lannon’s ex-wife and three other people were found in a vehicle in a parking garage at Albuquerque International Sunport, New Mexico’s largest airport. It is not clear how they were killed. According to police, three of them were reported missing in January from Grants, about 130 kilometers west of Albuquerque. The victims were identified as Jennifer Lannon (39); Matthew Miller, 21; Jesten Mata, 40; and Randal Apostalon, 60.
Gilbert Gallegos Jr., Albuquerque police spokesman, said on Sunday that of the four bodies found at the airport, one appeared to have been killed in Albuquerque “and that’s what our detectives are focusing on”, while the other three apparently in the Grants environment was killed. of Cibola County.
‘Shortly after Mr. Lannon was arrested, our detectives went to St. Louis. Louis and question him about the matter, ‘he said. “At the moment we are still looking for evidence, doing warrants and talking to a lot of people, but no one has been charged yet.”
On March 8, three days after the remains were found in New Mexico, the body of Michael Dabkowski was discovered in his home in New Jersey, just south of Philadelphia, after a wellness check. Lannon is accused of breaking in and beating the 66-year-old with a hammer, according to an affidavit. Prosecutors in Gloucester County announced on March 10 that Lannon was charged with several counts of murder, robbery, burglary, theft of cars and weapons.
Prosecutors said during a detention hearing on Friday that he said he killed the four people whose remains were found in a vehicle and ’11 other individuals’, reports NJ.com. Lannon is only charged with death in New Jersey.
Chris Whitman, Jennifer Lannon’s brother, said Sean Lannon told the family in January that Jennifer “ran away” with some friends, possibly to Arizona, and Whitman told the AP on Saturday that the story does not sound right because ‘she’s a wonderful mother, and it would just be characteristic of her not to be with her children. ‘
Lannon told investigators that Dabkowski sexually abused him as a child and that he went to the house to retrieve sexually explicit photos. Dabkowski mentored Lannon and his twin brother through a Big Brothers program in the 1980s, reports NJ.com.
Whitman said the family did not know about the alleged abuse. In fact, he said he met Dabkowski a few years ago during the birthday party of one of the Lannon kids, and it all looks good.
“I knew he was a close friend of Sean’s, and that he was a father figure,” Whitman said. “But out there we knew nothing else.”