Francis & Ethyl Lundon Murder Case
Man charged in Minnesota double homicide says he went to wrong house
Original Post Date: 5th Oct, 2010 - 12:23am
I don't believe him for a second. The victims were two elderly people in their 70's!
MAHNOMEN, Minn. — The man charged in the shooting deaths of a rural northwest Minnesota couple told a Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent that he went to the wrong house. Timothy Thorson, 53, is charged with second-degree murder in the killings last week of Francis Lundon, 72, and his 71-year-old wife, Ethyl, of rural Mahnomen. The complaint says Thorson, a recovering drug addict, had been given information that drug dealers were living in the home. He allegedly intended to rob the dealers. Thorson told the agent that he rode a bike to the house and had a rifle, KFGO-AM reported. The complaint says that Francis Lundon offered Thorson a beer, and that Thorson shot the couple after Lundon tried to grab the gun....
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