ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Jennifer Lannon loved her children, though she lost custody of them because of her struggle with prescription drug use.
Just about a year before the mother of five went missing, she posted a heartfelt message to her daughter on social media for her sixth birthday, calling her unforgettable, sweet, sassy and smart. “Somehow you were able to learn early on that life is too short to take it for granted.
Thank you for reminding me when I forget so easily,” Lannon wrote. The decomposing body of the 39-year-old mother and those of two of her troubled friends — Jesten Mata, 40, and Matthew Miller, 21 — were found this month in a pickup truck at the Albuquerque airport.