WOODBURY, N.J.—A man accused of killing several people in two states has been sentenced in New Jersey to 35 years in prison for the beating death of a former mentor.
Sean Lannon, 48, had pleaded guilty in October to first-degree murder in the March 2021 slaying of Michael Dabkowski, 66. Gloucester County prosecutors have said Lannon broke into the victim’s East Greenwich home and beat him to death with a hammer.
Dabkowski had served as a mentor to Lannon and his twin brother when they were children in the 1980s and involved in a youth program. Lannon told investigators Dabkowski had sexually abused him as a child and that he had gone to the home to retrieve sexually explicit photos, but no evidence was ever presented in court to support that claim….