Facts of the Crime:
On March 24, 2001, Shawn Patrick Lynch and Michael Sehwani met the victim, James Stanley Panzarella, at a local bar. When the bar closed, Lynch and Sehwani went back to Panzarella's residence, a guest house behind his parent's home.
In the early morning hours of March 25, 2001, someone from the residence called an adult entertainment business for a dancer. Sehwani wrote the dancer several checks from Panzarella's banking account. After the dancer left, Lynch tied the shirtless victim to a chair with telephone cord. After rendering him helpless and unable to resist, Lynch slashed Panzarella's throat with a knife, nearly severing his head from his shoulders.
Lynch and Sehwani subsequently made purchases using the victim's credit cards, and checked into several motels to watch numerous adult movies. Law enforcement tracked Lynch and Sehwani to one of the motels, where both were taken into custody.
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