A decide discovered Larry Doil Sanders Sr. responsible of murdering his pal throughout a fishing journey in July 2022. Sanders and Jimmy Glenn Knighten had been noodling in Oklahoma—, fishing for catfish with their naked palms—when issues began to get a bit bizarre. Sadly, it ended with a cold-blooded homicide.
In keeping with an in depth report of the two-day, non-jury trial by native newspaper The Ada Information, Sanders, 55, struggles with substance abuse. He had taken methamphetamine within the days previous the noodling journey and was probably in a state of psychosis on the time.
Sanders can be a Bigfoot believer, and, in accordance with testimonies, “his Bigfoot rhetoric is extra pronounced when he’s underneath the affect of the drug.”
Right here’s why that’s related.
Sanders took the stand in his personal protection within the trial, which wrapped up yesterday, and he defined that he murdered Knighten, 52, in self-defense after Knighten summoned Bigfoot to harm him. Three Bigfoots, in reality.
From Sanders’ perspective, Knighten was appearing unusual through the fishing journey. He took a cryptic telephone name early within the day, and at one level, Sanders says Knighten even received up on a rock and howled for apparently no cause.
It will get worse.
Sanders says he then noticed three Bigfoots by the river—a tall black one about 50 yards away, plus two extra, a darkish purple one and a brown one, farther away. Some experiences say Sanders believed Knighten needed to kill him as a sacrifice to Bigfoot. The 2 males received right into a battle, and Sanders strangled Knighten to dying.
Knighten was a father, a grandfather, a son, and a brother. He’d provided Sanders employment beginning the next week after which invited him on a noodling journey that ended horribly.
Sanders is now formally responsible of first-degree homicide, and he’ll be sentenced in June.
