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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowA handyman facing murder charges for fatally strangling two Lake County women has been found mentally incompetent to stand trial.
The Times of Northwest Indiana reported 46-year-old James A. Lohnes of Crown Point will be held for 90 days at a mental institution after the finding Friday. Lake Superior Court Judge Samuel L. Cappas scheduled a status hearing for Oct. 25.
Lohnes faces two counts of murder in the January 2016 strangling of 86-year-old Velia Taneff and 63-year-old Lana Taneff.
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.
Lohnes had been arrested the night before in Ohio with Velia Taneff's car.
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