Today, Judge Scott Arthur Evans resentenced John Earl Lebo, Jr. to two consecutive life sentences.  On September 7, 1984, Lebo pleaded guilty to two counts of first degree murder, two counts of kidnapping, indecent assault and theft in connection with the murders of 25-year-old Lana Hahn and 2-year-old Morgan C. Eugene Hahn, II.  On October 5, 1984, Judge Warren G. Morgan sentenced Lebo to consecutive terms of life imprisonment.  Lebo was 16-years-old at the time of the murders.  Resentencing was required based on the United States Supreme Court decision in Miller v. Alabama, which barred mandatory minimum life sentencing for juveniles.

Prior to the murders, Lebo kidnapped Mrs. Hahn and young Morgan at gunpoint.  He forced them on a 50 minute march in bitter cold.  After committing an indecent assault upon Mrs. Hahn, he shot and killed both victims with a shotgun.  At the sentencing hearing, District Attorney Fran Chardo called retired Trooper Daniel Wertz and forensic psychiatrist John S. O'Brien as witnesses.  Trooper Wertz testified that at the time of his arrest, Lebo smiled after he described shooting the toddler with the shotgun.  Dr. O'Brien testified that Lebo has demonstrated himself to be incapable of rehabilitation.  Judge Evans found that the Commonwealth had met its burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that Lebo is permanently incorrigible and rehabilitation would be impossible.