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Handyman charged in slayings of Lake County woman, daughter

Posted March 11, 2016 6:00 am

The Associated Press

CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP) - Authorities investigating the January slayings of a Lake County woman and her adult daughter have charged a handyman who had worked for the victims in connection with their strangulation deaths.

Lake County Sheriff John Buncich said Friday that 44-year-old James A. Lohnes of Crown Point faces two counts of murder and one count of auto theft in connection with the slayings of 86-year-old Velia "Val" Taneff and 63-year-old Lana Taneff.

The (Munster) Times reports (http://bit.ly/21nhNhi ) Lana Taneff's body was found Jan. 17 in the basement of a home she shared with her mother in Calumet Township. Velia Taneff's body was found in an apartment of a building that she owned next door to her home.

Lohnes had been arrested the night before in northwestern Ohio with Velia Taneff's car.

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Information from: The Times, http://www.thetimesonline.com

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