Police Discover Car Filled With Serial Killer's Bodies
This video was brought to you by Simply. Safe. There's no safe like Simply Safe. Police just arrived at an airport. parking lot to investigate reports of an. abandoned truck. Initially, it seemed. like just another routine call with. nothing unusual. But that's when it hit. them. Kind of smells. I think it smell. like detox. I can smell something. Inside the truck lay four brutalized and. dismembered bodies hidden inside boxes.
What officers didn't know at the time is. that 11 more bodies lay buried and. hidden in remote areas of the state. An. active twisted serial killer was on the. loose and detectives were already months. behind. You remember the last time you. saw maybe a couple of months ago? We. don't care about anything else other. than that fun match J and Justin. Whoever did that is our focus. I tied.
everything together yesterday when he. did that. You know what I mean? Like I. know he lost them three, man. I know he. did. Taking these other 11. Did you take. them all to the same place? If you ever. came back out to New Mexico, would you. be willing to take us? [Music]. It started on a Sunday afternoon when. police in Grants, New Mexico, received a. mysterious call. A landlord had just. discovered something he described as.
disturbing while cleaning out an evicted. tenants's home. Officers immediately. headed to the address to investigate. So, this. guy hasn't paid us since July, but with. CO going on, we couldn't evict him. So, we've had nothing but pro problems with. him. Uhhuh. Anyways, we finally got him. to move out. So, I seen him today. We. haven't come by. We haven't messed with. him. Don't play kick his ass. You know, when I came by, he says, "I'm going to.
leave you a pile to throw." Well, we. didn't know which pile, so we started to. load it up. Uh-huh. While we were moving. some things, and. [Applause]. uh we found this puppy in this box. underneath some of the kids stuff, you. know. Okay. So, we go to put the puppy. in the bag because we were going to bury. it. And then we see that they had tied a. cord on its neck. Okay. Well, we've had, like I said, nothing but problems with. these guys. So, I at least want to put.
the a report on file. I know we won't be. able to say who did it and when, but. that needs to be associated with him, you know, because we're going to take. him to court for a lot of other things, and if I can just have that on file, it'll help. Okay. It was clear the puppy. had suffered a horrific death. Animal. control arrived shortly afterwards and. confirmed it had been deliberately. tortured, noting a cord tied tightly. around its neck. The cruelty of the. scene was deeply unsettling, and the. officer immediately recognized they were.
dealing with someone truly twisted. Yeah, that was just. Absolutely. That's just sad. that I just. that right there just really got to me. cuz it's like that's just not that's not. cool at all. No, absolutely cool. Awful people. Yeah. You. know, we tried to get in the landlord, the owner, you know, we tried to go into. the house. They went in, they painted. everything their own colors, and they. just ruined everything. Unfortunately.
for investigators, the puppy was just. the first body. And in the coming days, police would uncover more gruesome. scenes, strange disappearances, and. disturbing evidence pointing to. something far more calculated than. anyone. expected. That same day, Detective. Robert Turney was assigned a missing. person's case involving 19-year-old. Matthew Miller. Matthew's grandmother. had called 911 a couple of days earlier,
worried because she hadn't seen or heard. from him in nearly a week. It turned out. police were already familiar with. Matthew and knew he had previously. struggled with substance abuse. So, initially they assumed his disappearance. was drugrelated. Maybe he overdosed. somewhere. But Matthew's family insisted. something was different this time and. urgently requested to speak with. detectives. Trusting their instincts, Detective Turney decided to visit. Matthew's grandmother where he would. discover some unsettling new.
possibilities. people calling me, hey, you know, it's a small town. So, you guys can help me out by just. calling around uh to hospitals, um clinics, re rehabilitation places, um other county jails, and just see see. if um he's there. So, prepare for the. worst and hope for the best. Okay? But. but I will tell you I don't you know I.
don't um I had more than enough to. arrest Matthew several times and he's. not one of those people that I wanted to. arrest. You know Matthew is not going to. pull a gun on anybody right to get his. drugs. No he's not that kind of person. Yes. Yes. That's my main fear. And he. probably has a little bit of a complex. because he knows he's that kind of. person. And so he's going to be real. hesitant to reach out and tell you guys. the actual truth about this person took. advantage of his me. Yeah.
So just forgive him. All you can do is. tell him you love him and you forgive. him and go from there. After rehashing. some information with Matthew's family, Detective Turney would go on to learn. some critical details. Matthew's. girlfriend told the family she saw him. getting into a vehicle with several. other people, including a blonde woman. named Jennifer Lannon, someone Matthew. had recently been spending time with. He. also learned that Matthew often spent. time with a close friend named Justin Ma. and his girlfriend Leoni Kalzada. All.
three were known to use drugs together. Acting quickly on these promising new. leads, police began searching locations. Matthew was known to frequent. And soon. enough, they located Matthew's Chevy. Colorado truck, parked and seemingly. abandoned within a few blocks away from. Leone and Justin's. residence. The truck was dirty, locked, and appeared to have been parked there. for several days. Inside, detectives. found clothing and personal belongings, as well as several unsettling items,
including a pair of rubber gloves and a. shovel, lying in the truck's bed. They. also found multiple cell phones that. were damaged in the front and back. seats. It seemed clear Matthew hadn't. intended to leave the truck there, and. detectives sensed something wasn't. right. Immediately, investigators. canvased the area and found surveillance. cameras nearby, one of which captured. Matthew's truck arriving at Leon and. Justin's address on January 26th, just 3. days before Matthew was reported.
missing. With these new alarming. discoveries, Detective Turney knew the. next logical step was to urgently speak. with Matthew's friends, Justin Ma and. Leoni Kazada, hoping they could shed. some light on the situation. However, when they arrived at the couple's. residence, they would quickly realize. Matthew wasn't the only one. missing. No, just you. You sure? Okay.
Come in. Hey guys. Hey. Hi. Robert. He's gone. He gone. He gone. Yeah. Okay. This is Leoni Kazada, the. girlfriend of Matthew's close friend, Justin Ma. And someone detectives. suspected might know exactly what. happened to Matthew. This is very, very. important. We're looking for Matthew. Miller. He's been missing for over two.
weeks. When was the last time he was. here? Maybe a year ago. A year ago. When. I first got this place. Yeah. When I. first got it last February. He hasn't. been here since then. What if I got video of this vehicle? Here. When you had himself. Okay. When. was the last time you saw him here? when. he was once over I first got this place. a year ago. You think Justin would have. he would have Yeah, probably when you. weren't here. I wasn't here or I didn't.
pay attention. Yeah, cuz they said all. that. Yeah, but he left on 17th and then. came back and 17th. That's a long time. ago. Yeah. Then I went to go talk to the. guy. He's like, "Yeah, they left each. other there during the night and we're. in Arizona.". Do you have any kind of way to contact. Justin? You have a phone number? No, he. left him to go. What's his phone number? Facebook. He took my phone. My. phone. Yeah.
When was When was the last time you had. any kind of communication? What I would like to do, all right, is look around your house for any kind. of evidence of Matthew Mill or any kind. of foul play. know if anything other. than that. According to Leone, her. boyfriend Justin had also mysteriously. vanished and she hadn't seen him since. January 17th, nearly 2 weeks before. Matthew was even reported missing. But.
investigators knew something wasn't. adding up when Leone insisted she hadn't. seen Matthew in nearly a year. Surveillance footage clearly showed. Matthew's truck outside her residence. just days before he disappeared. With. their suspicion mounting, detectives. decided to search Leone's home, hoping. to uncover whether she might be hiding. something or someone. Did you notice. anything strange that happened around. here? Did you notice anything different. around here or like something like that.
was any kind of blood? Needles? What about needles or pills or. anything like that? That's what he's. using. I'm not sure though. Yeah. Okay, guys. I can only find one. person dead in a trunk per year. That's.
my max. Despite their best efforts, investigators found no signs of foul. play or violence. Still, Detective. Turney couldn't shake the feeling that. something was overlooked. So, he. returned to speak briefly with Leone, unaware she'd drop a crucial clue. [Music]. never been as of the 17th of July. He.
left his life. Leone revealed that. Justin had recently taken off with. another woman named Jennifer, supposedly. heading to Arizona to reup on drugs and. make some money. With this new detail, Detective Turney now found himself. investigating the disappearances of. three different people. Matthew Miller, Justin Ma, and now potentially Jennifer. not yet aware just how closely connected. these cases really were. So to move.
forward, Turney quickly looked into. Jennifer and discovered she had recently. been reported missing by her ex-husband, Shaun Lannon. That name sounded familiar. to Detective Turney because just days. earlier, officers had responded to a. disturbing call at 817 Kingman Avenue, the same property where the remains of. aured puppy had been uncovered. and the. tenants evicted from that very house, Shawn and Jennifer Lannon. Finally, investigators were starting to connect.
the dots. Three people, all closely. linked through drugs and personal. relationships, had vanished within days. of each other. Detective Turney realized. it was time to canvas the neighborhood. surrounding Shawn and Jennifer's former. home, hoping a neighbor might have seen. something suspicious or could offer the. lead they desperately needed. That's. when they found a neighbor whose. security camera was pointed directly at. Shawn and Jennifer's old residence. And. what the investigator saw on the footage. would finally bring some muchneeded.
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Visit. simplysafe.com/insanity to customize. yours. There's no safe like. Simplysafe. On January 26th, Matthew is. seen entering Shawn's home, but. investigators never see him leave. Hours. later, Shawn is spotted on camera. driving away in Matthew's truck. And. when he returns, he's alone on foot, and. Matthew is nowhere to be. seen. 2 days later, on January 28th, the.
same camera recorded someone loading. household items into a red Dodge Dakota. parked outside the residence and driving. away. This CCTV footage marked a. critical turning point for. investigators. For the first time, detectives had visual proof of Matthew. at Jennifer and Sha's residence. With. this significant new lead, the next step. was clear. Detective Turney needed to. speak directly to Shawn. Only his. account could clarify what happened that. day and potentially reveal crucial.
details about the missing trio. The next. morning, Detective Turney reached out to. Shawn and agreed to sit down for a. formal interview. Whatever Shawn said. next had the potential to shift the. direction of this case completely. So, first things first, let's get her. into this messing. Okay. Okay. Do you. have you ever seen Matthew Miller? You. know what I'm talking about? Is he over. over at your house? It's been weeks and. I think he's definitely.
been a fourth and third. Was his truck. ever parked at your house? for more than in like a day overnight. I'm not sure. Have you ever driven his. truck? You driven his truck? When was. the last time you drove his truck? Couple weeks ago. Couple weeks ago. So again, when did you find out that. they split and took off to Arizona, ran.
away together, whatever? It was 7 weeks ago. came back only come. back. Did you have did you have anything. to do with with Jennifer's. disappearance? Matthew's disappearance. Do you think something bad happened to. Matthew and Jennifer? Jennifer drugs used to be when she came. back with more bills than I could. imagine anybody would have. She'd like. those. Man, it's just I just got a.
really really bad feeling about all. this. You don't I do you don't seem. I've been been in the circle for a. minute. She has she ever done this before? Yeah. During the interview, Detective Turney. notices something strange. Shawn remains. unnervingly calm, especially considering. his ex-wife and the mother of his three. young children has just vanished. Turney.
begins to question whether Shawn is. simply a bystander caught up in a tragic. situation or if he knows more than he's. letting. on. The next day, Detective Turney would. get his answer as police received an. unexpected call from a man named Josh. Hall. Josh was an acquaintance of. Matthew Miller and claimed he'd recently. witnessed something that deeply. concerned him, directly related to the. strange disappearances. Investigators. quickly arranged for a meeting with. Josh, hoping his account would finally.
provide the breakthrough they were. looking for. What's going on with Matthew? Man, that's my That's my chick's cousin. Check this out, man. Check this out. Follow me. Check this out, man. Yesterday, Kelly, right? Sean told me to. go talk to you. I guess he had to go. talk to you or something. Talk to C. He. goes to Kelly's smashes the back. ceiling gun. Jack threw his wife's IDs, some clothes, some other he just stashes. it since he had no.
dog. I was. there. I was there. Sean killed all. three of them mother, man. I'm telling. you, he merked all three of them people, man. He's putting it off on that he ran. off and everything. Why in the I don't. know, man. Kelly's like my sister. I. know all the you know killed. I know he. did, man. I know he did. He did, man. I'm telling you. Come on. And they find. the truck right by his house. You know. what I'm saying? And who stole the trip?
You know what I mean? Like was his. chick by himself. He's a. smart kid. I want to call on been. missing for he just barely reported his. wife missing. His wife's been missing. since like the. 23rd. Since last month, you know what I. mean? She's been missing the same time. Matt's been missing. And and after he. left and everything, go talk to you. Kelly went in there and open that strap, her IDs, some other personal careers, some clothes, and I don't know what she.
do with the sheed out. I had her with me. the whole time. She was tripping. Oh, and then Danny Danny Limos took off with. it. Danny Limos took the gun. Took the. vehicle. Danny walking. Walking that he. was walking. I'm telling you, man. And. he tripped me out yesterday. That's how. I tied I tied everything together. yesterday when he did that. You know. what I mean? Like I know I know he lost. M3, man. I know he did. Josh claims that. Shawn arrived at the residence of a.
woman named Kelly Dodto carrying a bag. he carefully hid in the ceiling of her. home before leaving to speak with. detectives at the police station. After. Shawn left, Kelly discovered the hidden. bag, removed a gun from inside, and. handed it off to a man named Danny. Lamos, locally known as Dog, who quickly. took the weapon and left on foot. When. Shawn returned and realized the bag was. missing, he became visibly agitated, smashing his phone on the ground before.
storming out. These troubling claims. raised immediate suspicion around. everyone involved, including two new. persons of interest, Kelly Dodto and. Daniel Lamos, both closely associated. with Shawn and Jennifer based on Josh's. statement. Danny Lamos was nowhere to be. found at the time. So, Detective Turney. knew he urgently needed to verify Josh's. account by speaking directly with Kelly. and more importantly find out if she was. hiding anything that could help connect.
the dots in this increasingly tangled. case. When investigators first arrived at. Kelly's house, she agreed to meet them. at the station for an interview, but. refused their offer of a ride, saying. her boss would bring her in about 30. minutes. However, when the time came, Kelly never showed up at the police. station. It was a major red flag, and it. made investigators even more suspicious.
of her. Two hours later, Detective. Turney returned to her house, suspecting. that Kelly might be stalling for time or. trying to cover something up. No, it's Robert and Ben. [Music]. The detectives. Hi. She hasn't gotten here yet. So, I. talked to my lawyer and he told me that. I didn't have to go with you guys. You. don't have to. What is it about? Can you. tell me? It's about the disappearance of. of who? Matthew Miller and.
Joshua. Sean Ler. Sean is not missing him. I know he's. not. This time, Kelly's behavior was. noticeably different. She appeared. distraught, reluctant to cooperate and. quick to mention her lawyer. Detective. Turney felt certain that she was. withholding crucial information and. decided to press harder. Was Sean here. yesterday? He came out yesterday. How. many times?
What? We just He came inside. He told me. that he had to go down and leave Clark. Jennifer missing. Did Sean find anything in the house that. was way? Oh, no. Did he destroy his. phone? Yeah, right here. I forgot he. destroyed his phone. Did he bring a bag. inside that had a gun? No. or any of Jennifer's identification. cards. Did you look in it? No. Did.
anyone else take the gun later? No. Do. you think he did something to Jennifer. and Matthew? I honestly don't. He doesn't seem like. that type of person. I think you're. lying to me about the bag and the gun. and Jennifer's ID. I'm not I don't know anything about like. he asked me. He said, "Where's my Yeah. No, I didn't see him being Oh, you're. forgetting what I already spoke to you. I know.
Has some stuff in your shed. Yeah. Did. you already know yesterday? No, I don't. think so. You went through it? No. After. some more pressure, Kelly admitted she. had several suspicious bags in her shed, supposedly belonging to Shawn. Curious. about the contents of the bags, detectives quickly followed Kelly to. take a closer look. I'm pretty sure it. is. Yeah. I I That box there is not his. I don't think it's I'm sure it's not.
And that paint can is not his. That's. his. That. is my house. Oh, Jackson. Are you ready? Yeah. She let us search. that thing from head to. toe and outside, too. Despite their best efforts, detectives. found no clear signs of blood or. evidence linking back to the missing. people. It was a frustrating dead end, and the chances of finding them seemed.
increasingly. slim. At this stage, investigators had. narrowed down their focus to several. individuals close to the missing trio, each with conflicting stories and. questionable behavior that kept. detectives on edge. But without hard. evidence, options were increasingly. running out. Desperate for a. breakthrough, Detective Turney secured a. search warrant for Shawn and Jennifer's. former home at 817 Kingman Avenue. Unsure exactly what or who they might. encounter, officers cautiously.
approached the property, prepared for. any potential. threat. [Music]. [Music]. Heat. Heat.
[Music]. [Music]. closet. Yet again, investigators were too late. The house had already undergone. extensive renovations. Carpets removed, drywall stripped, any potential evidence. completely erased. Unbeknownst to.
investigators at the time, the critical. evidence they desperately needed was. sitting in an abandoned truck miles. away, just waiting to be. discovered. For now, though, every. possible lead was exhausted, and. Detective Turing knew it was time for a. more direct approach. So, he called. Shawn once more, determined to extract. something, anything that could finally. lead investigators to the missing trio.
Hello. Hey, is this Sean? Yes, it is. Hey, Sean. This Detective attorney. How. are you doing? I'm good. How are you. doing today? Good, man. I've been trying. to get a hold of your other number and. it's not working. So, no, I apologize. I'm sorry. So, you know, you know. anything new? No, I haven't heard anything. Nope. Okay. Are you still around town? No, I'm. in Albuquerque. No, we've made some progress here and. there. I've got a bunch of uh pictures. of different vehicles I'd like you to.
I'd like you to take a look at. See if. you could help me identify them. Good. night, Mark. I can I wanted to come in. and like stuff I got to return to the. school. Okay. All right. Just make sure the kids are. taken care of and we'll go from there. All right. We'll see you tomorrow. Bye. Thanks. Shawn sounded cooperative and. willing to help, promising Detective. Turney he would come in for questioning. Yet, Shawn never showed up. The next. day, Tney even offered to personally. pick Shawn up and bring him to the.
station, but once again, Shawn failed to. appear. At this point, Tney felt certain. Shawn was deliberately stalling and knew. they couldn't afford to waste any more. time. He's done playing cat and. mouse. With the CCTV footage and witness. statements pointing directly at Shawn. and Danny as crucial figures, Detective. Turney knew he needed to bring them in. for questioning. So, investigators dug. deeper into both men's backgrounds. And.
that's when they hit the jackpot. Shawn. had an outstanding warrant for missing a. court appearance related to a 2020. assault and battery charge. It was the. break they needed. On February 25th, officers located Shawn in Albuquerque. and arrested him without incident, transporting him directly to the Grants. Police Department for. questioning. Detective attorney's goals. for the interview were simple. Determine. exactly what Shawn knew about the. missing trio and find out where Danny. Lamos had vanished after taking the. alleged gun. Let's go back to Matthew's.
truck. Okay. So, it's it's it starts to. back in there and you're the last one. who drove it, right? So, let's go. backward from where you when you parked. it. Where did you go with it that day? Do you remember specifically? That. little place is average. It was one side. of McDonald's. I thought that was the. last day where you ever used it. And um. I got Smiths, we got water, food, Walmart. That's.
it. Is there a tracker on the truck? My. phone was always on like pull along. I. don't I'm not going in the mountains. I. have children. I don't have any bodies. Like I literally I'm a I was a medic for. in the army. Like I have three kids. I don't think you're capable of doing. something like this. I think you're very. capable of defending yourself though. An. accident happens. If it was nice, I. would be like, "Uh, that's. self-defense." Because cuz self-defense. beats. Literally, no. Biggest fear in my.
house. Why the pistol stay in the house. was was had a dog like that guy scares. me. I'm not gonna lie about it. Yeah. So, who told you to park it there? Justin. Justin was there at the house. talking with like they're all chewing on. the soup. Who's all there? Jennifer. Justin and Matthew. And Matthew. And he. gets a boatload of pills from him and. they're like, "We're going to go score.".
I mean, they no money, nothing to the kids. No, they leave the. truck. And literally, I'm like, "Well, I. need to go." Like, "Can can I get some. [ __ ] groceries or some shit?" And. literally, I'm like, "What? What do we. do with the truck?" He's like, "Leave. it." I'm like, "Yeah, leave your [ __ ]. here." Like, "No." I was like, "You're. not going to park in front." I just No. I need to go to the dumpsters. I need to. go to my. dollar, you know. And so they told you. in the house when you're done with it to.
park it at the compartment. Matthew. wants to park it down the street. He. says, "No, my budgies over there in your. near the just leave it there." As the. interview continued, Shawn seemed to. have an answer for everything, including. the CCTV footage, claiming he only moved. the truck at Matthew and Justin's. request. He also appeared to casually. downplay the entire incident, insisting. the trio's disappearances were simply. part of a drugrelated business venture, nothing criminal. But Detective Turney.
wasn't buying it. He knew Shawn's. explanation didn't match witness. statements, and his earlier actions were. too suspicious to ignore. But without. solid proof, Turney couldn't directly. refute Shawn's story. So to move. forward, Detective Turney changed. tactics. He decided to deliberately. introduce Danny Lamos into the. conversation, offering Shawn an easy. scapegoat. If Shawn took the bait, Tney. might finally uncover what Shawn was. hiding, or at least gain insight into. what really happened to the missing.
trio. Did Did Danny kill him? I I have. no idea. I don't really spend most of my. time with the kids. If I had to guess. who would kill him, it would be the guy. saying, "If I got to dispose of the. bodies, I'm going to put him in my pig.". going to show me the pig one day cuz. it's held in men's house. This is. I don't have any answers for Matthew. I. don't know much about it. Talk to dog. If someone's going to move a body and. put it somewhere, my guess the creepy. dude that talks about pigs. Pigs do. everything but eyeballs. I'm like, who.
would know that? Like this dude's I'm. whatever. I'm scared to dog. Would you? So, but my kids are scared of dog. I'm. scared of dog. I don't [ __ ] be afraid. of it or shame of it. But we hid in the. house. I didn't go anywhere. I. definitely didn't leave my kids for 5. hours cuz I I didn't find the blood of. the other one. Just as planned, the. moment Danny Lamos's name came up, Shawn. seized the opportunity and implicated. him, pointing to Dy's violent nature and. even suggesting his ability to dispose. of bodies using pigs. Beyond those.
accusations, however, Shawn stuck to his. story for the rest of the interview, denying any involvement in the. disappearance. Without solid proof. against him, detectives had no choice. but to end their questioning. Still, Shawn wasn't completely free. His. outstanding warrant for failure to. appear in court meant he'd spend the. next 7 days in custody, and officers. immediately transported him to the local. jail. Investigators spent the following. week interviewing acquaintances,
re-examining evidence, and piecing. together scattered leads. During their. interview, one detail caught Detective. Turner's attention. The mysterious red. Ford truck that was spotted parked. outside Shaun's residence, later leaving. with unknown contents loaded in the. back. Investigators had not yet located. this truck and attorneys strongly. suspected it might hold something. crucial to their case. For now, though, three people remained missing and police. narrowed their focus to two prime.
suspects. Shawn Lannon, who was recorded. on surveillance driving Matthew's truck. and potentially connected to the missing. red truck, and Danny Lamos, who. allegedly received a handgun connected. to Shawn before disappearing himself. With each passing day, Turney grew more. convinced that the missing trio had been. murdered and that their two prime. suspects likely held the answers. But. the window to find something conclusive. was quickly closing. Because on March. 3rd, Shawn completed his short jail. sentence and was released back onto the.
streets significantly, raising the. stakes. Now facing the possibility of. losing another prime suspect, Detective. Turney knew he had to act fast. All he. needed was just one single lead, some. hint of where the bodies might be. hidden. [Music]. On March 5th, officers received a call. from the security at Albuquerquey's.
Sunport Airport about an abandoned Red. Ford Ranger, eerily similar to the one. from surveillance footage gathered. during the investigation. What officers. found inside would confirm the gruesome. truth they'd been searching for. kind of smells. Kind of smells, but not to like decomposer or anything.
finally got you guys out here, huh? Yeah, we called it in by 1:30, but they. said they didn't want to they didn't. want to send anybody out here. There's a. pretty foul smell coming from the. vehicle. Yeah. Every so often. I don't.
know if you noticed. Yeah, I couldn't. really tell what it was. Like you. already sound like I couldn't really. think it smelled like demp body or. something like that, but I don't know. I. smell something, but I can't tell what. it was. Also smell like dirty like. almost. But yeah, we'll check that. stuff. So, in the back of the truck were. several sealed storage bins emitting an. unmistakable smell of decay. And inside.
were the dismembered bodies of Jennifer. Lannon, Matthew Miller, and Justin Mada. Jennifer had been shot at close range in. the head. Justin had also suffered a. gunshot wound to the head along with. severe blunt force injuries, and. Matthew's body showed clear signs of. massive head trauma. Evidence he'd also. been beaten to death. But the horrors. didn't end there. Hidden beneath a tarp. in the passenger seat was yet another. body. Randall Aposttoon, the truck's.
owner. His body showed signs of severe. blunt force trauma, and a bloodied. hammer found nearby was clearly the. weapon used to kill him. Investigators. found more disturbing evidence inside. the truck. Multiple serrated knives. stained with dried blood, a handsaw, and. several pairs of industrial gloves, all. clearly pointing to a calculated. coldblooded murder. It was still unclear. to investigators why Randall had been. murdered or how his death was connected. to the other three, but they wouldn't.
have to wait long to find out. Detectives urgently turned to the. Albuquerque airport surveillance. cameras, knowing the truck hadn't driven. itself there. And it didn't take long. before they spotted exactly who they. were looking. for. On March 3rd, 2021, just two days. before the gruesome discovery, the. airport's cameras captured Shaun Lannon. driving the truck into the airport. parking lot, exiting the vehicle, and. leaving behind the bodies of his four. victims. Finally, detectives found their.
killer. It was time to track Shawn down. and bring him in. On the same day the bodies were. discovered, police urgently scrambled to. track down Shaun Lennon, but it was. already too late. Shawn had slipped out. of Albuquerque and vanished. Immediately, the US marshals issued a. nationwide alert, believing Shawn posed. an active threat and was possibly on a. violent crime spree. Authorities across. multiple states joined the manhunt to. track him down before anyone else was.
harmed. Then on March 9th, Detective Turney. received a disturbing call. US Marshalss. informed him that Shaun Lannon was now. wanted in connection to another murder. This one committed just a day earlier in. New Jersey. Authorities had linked Shawn. to the murder of Michael Deckowski. through witness statements and. surveillance footage that placed him. directly at the scene. A quick. background check also revealed the. victim wasn't a random target. Debcowski.
was someone Shawn had personally known. for many years. It was an alarming. detail that made it clear Shawn's. violent spree was far from over. Now. with five bodies discovered and a serial. killer on the loose, police knew anyone. in Shawn Lannon's circle could be next, and they had to act fast. Federal. authorities urgently tracked Shawn's. movements, closely monitoring. surveillance footage and cell phone. data. And finally, on the morning of. March 10th, US Marshals pinpointed. Shawn's location in St. Louis, Missouri,
and they quickly moved in and captured. him without incident. Shaun Lannon was. immediately extradited back to New. Jersey, finally putting an end to his. killing. spree. By now, the evidence against. Shaun Lannon was overwhelming. Investigators had more than enough to. charge him, but there were still. critical questions that only Shawn could. answer. They still needed to understand. exactly why he committed these horrific. murders and determine whether he acted. alone or if others helped him carry out.
and conceal evidence. When Detective. Turney sat down face tof face with. Shawn, he expected more lies and. deception. But surprisingly, Shawn. didn't resist or deny anything. Instead, he resigned to his fate, openly. admitting he was tired of running and. knew his capture was inevitable. In his. own words, he simply wanted it to be. over. So, with nothing left to hide, Shawn would give detectives exactly what. they hoped for, a chilling, detailed.
account of the murders and the twisted. reasons behind each one. Um, J's already. out with my. time. Wasn't enough to take her. life. She wanted me to make sure she she. wanted to for sure. cuz I really should have. breathing. She wasn't going to OD. I. went the other room, psyched myself up. repeating. that kind of emotionally charged.
statement of you killed the garrison. baby. So I had. no ready to do it. I put that pistol. behind her head and I pulled the. trigger. to come later. I was supposed to bed. too. I put that piss in my. mouth. Could I handle. up? Just some past teeth. I I sudden cry. out. I was like, "What the I do.
now." Full of sugar. Kids going to see. both our hands went up. I love. so close the bedroom door. Got the kids. normal. Said set them up to be in the. other room. We have a. vehicle and John's boyfriend drove in. the trunk on the. car. So, I pretty much lived right here. So, he'd be. out there to a storage, a long.
one. The sheets that were around here. The bedding was in the bag in the box, too. Container I. um tried to dismember her to put her in. containers. It'll work. It's awful and. traumatic. was thinking about it. Still. haunts me. I knew I was living on bar. time at that point. So I need to get my. kids somewhere safe to go. home. So I continued with packing. everything up all the while still. baiting just the.
mother. He's responsible for the drug. and doing that to my kids. Took like a. week. I came to the house. So. I in the laundry room connected to the. garage. That's where I killed him. Before I killed him, he offered up a. trade. His phone had pictures of Shawn. Michael sitting there naked in my living. room. I don't know what his name or.
Matthew Miller or whatever the his name. is on my son's shoulders. I was like, "Who sent you this picture?" He's like, "This guy knows it's real." He's like, "I took the picture." I was like, "Well, he took that picture and he just the guy. in the picture." So, um, I said, "There it is." You know, he. was right over the vent down with hider. Um, he wanted he wanted to know if he. could do a shot before it took his life.
So, I said, "Well, if you find any in. the vent, I mean, he was looking down in. the vent. You can see it. coming from my shot in the. back. Wasn't something else. though. He's pretty pretty tall, dude. I. had this memory almost at some point a. day or two. later. Disgusted. me. That's gross. I had to work up the. nerves to move his. bodies. There's so much blood. That's. why I had to pull the floor up in that.
room. I stole my room that was the. flooring that was pulled up in the kids'. bedroom. A piece of landlord nerve. tracks the water leak and the carpet got. molded. It was unsafe. The carpet was. outside the house and so was the the. padding if they thought through some of. the reason still. there. Took 2 hours before I had enough. um ability to even go near Justin. When you got Justin over there, was this. shortly after? Like how how long between.
the time that you had that you Jennifer. that you shoot Justin at least a week. took a while. How did you get him to. come over? I was baiting as if I was. Jennifer on phone. Yeah. So you thought you was to meet. Jennifer? Yeah. I also had pictures of. Daniel Lamos and my son. I never got my. hands on Daniel Lamos. I fully intended. after I was heading back to New Mexico. for like yesterday. [Music].
get. over if I did it would be in the box cuz. you. know so then I had the three of them. probably that kid comes over William or. Matthew whatever his name was comes over. with Felicity his. girlfriend she looked like she was like. 12 years. old and I should freaking name anyone. they don't have. to he's like they're looking for money. or anything. I might give you a food.
cart for example. I like just take like. 40. bucks and I like all I need is later in. the week give me a ride to get some. water and I'm going to let her want. So, one of those times he came back, he. didn't have Felicity and that's when. that's when I shot him in the back of. the head and I had one of his vehicles. to help Bergie. Um, some point he brought me the boxes. that fit him in the. back. I couldn't open him up. I couldn't.
come up with enough money to the. vehicle. So, he was going to take the. truck back. So, um, found some else for. the, um, the boxes of his storage containers. I was going to hold them for 150 bucks. Um, he won another $300 once we got to. his place. Randy wanted another $300 to. hold the boxes. So, um, I didn't have. $300. So, he's like, "I'm going to drop. you back off." So, we left, came back to.
the, uh, back to the pearl. The box was still in the back. Pulled in. right there. I got in a fight. I killed. him in the front seat. He was in. driver's seat. Throughout his. confession, Shawn remained eerily. composed, showing almost no emotions. Even more chilling is the fact that just. hours after dismembering the bodies and. brutally killing Randall, Shawn was. picked up by police on an unrelated. warrant and sat across from Detective. Turney, coldly denying any involvement.
while a truck full of bodies was parked. just a few blocks away. So Tuesday, I took the um I grabbed the. truck and I know what to do with it. I. don't know. anybody what you do with the body. them. I wasn't trying to I knew at some point. he's going to get caught. I just want my. kids back home. I took them to the. airport the day before and I positioned. him just everything was the same.
Secured the vehicle as an. obvious and I took a I believe it was an. Uber, took it out right to the pearl. The next day we flew out and we're. waiting on time like. again some point they find the bodies at. the airport in the box. And then. um last on my list was uh the man that. me as a child, my big brother, big. brother's big sisters, whatever. He gives too. He wanted the.
pictures back. He didn't want to give me. the pictures. So I started. beating and he gave me the pictures. I. took his life. Okay. So I'm proud of. that. I'm not proud of that. Um, I did. find time to make it back to finish. The last victim in Shawn's killing spree. was his former mentor, Michael. Deckowski, a man Shawn accused of him. during childhood and believed still had. photographs of that abuse. When. Debkowski refused to hand over those.
photographs, Shawn killed him without. hesitation. But just as detectives. thought they heard everything from. Shawn, he would make one final shocking. statement. There were even more bodies. waiting to be found. And so the other 11 you said started. about two and a half years ago, three. years ago. And you used you disarmed them from guns. and you said knives. Knives. whatever had like almost like a pickaxe. made somewhere picking like a pickaxe.
was like if you had to think. back like how many how many of that out. of the 11 were shot and how many were. stabbed like if you can elaborate on any. of that. Two were shot. Two. And then how many were stabbed? Was the. rest of them? The rest of them. So nine. According to Shawn, he'd killed at least. 11 additional people, mostly drug. dealers tied to Jennifer, and hidden.
their bodies in remote areas of Malpes. National Park. Detectives approached. these claims cautiously, knowing Shawn. was a skilled manipulator who mixed. truths with calculated lies. Perhaps. this was his last attempt to influence. the outcome of his trial later on. But. despite extensive searches, no. additional bodies were ever discovered. and Shawn's claims remained unverified. Detectives also investigated one of the. key persons of interest directly. implicated by Shawn himself, Danny.
Lamos. He was located in Albuquerque and. arrested by US Marshalss on March 25th, 2021. Dany agreed to speak with. Detective Turney, firmly denying any. involvement and expressing shock that. Shawn was even capable of these horrific. crimes. He admitted taking the handgun. Shawn had hidden at Kelly's house, but. claimed he had no idea it was tied to a. murder and had quickly sold it. afterwards. After exhaustive interviews. and reviewing all available evidence,
detectives eventually cleared Dany along. with all other potential suspects, ultimately concluding Shawn acted. entirely alone. In October 2022, Shawn. pleaded guilty to the first-degree. murder of Michael Decowski in New. Jersey. He was sentenced to 35 years in. prison. And in May 2024, he pleaded. guilty to killing Jennifer Lannon, Justin Ma, Matthew Miller, and Randall. Pastelone, receiving four consecutive. 15-year sentences. As part of his plea.
agreement, Shawn will serve his sentence. in New Jersey first, then return to New. Mexico to serve an additional 60 years. behind bars.
