On October 5, 1990, 40-year-old John Ben Loons, a Native American man, was found dead in his Duluth, Minnesota apartment alongside his 50-year-old roommate, Ronald St. Germain. Both victims suffered a brutal attack that included multiple stab wounds, beatings, and slashed throats. The violence followed a violent domestic dispute earlier that same day.

Investigators identified 30-year-old Michael Shane Lefthand as the attacker after he allegedly engaged in a violent altercation with his pregnant girlfriend, Lisa Morgan, and attempted to slash her throat. Lefthand then broke into Loons and St. Germain’s apartment and murdered both men. He was arrested on October 11, 1990, and during interrogation implicated himself in other killings; authorities could not corroborate those additional claims.

Lefthand pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of his girlfriend and received an eight-year sentence. In June 1991 he was convicted of the murders of Loons and St. Germain and sentenced to life in prison; that conviction was later overturned on procedural grounds, he was retried, convicted again, and resentenced to life. He is serving his sentence at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Faribault.

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