February 9, 1978 - Marc Sappington
His case sits at the intersection of severe mental illness, substance abuse, and extreme violence — a combination that made his actions in spring 2001 both difficult to categorize and impossible to dismiss. Over a matter of weeks, he killed four people known to him, and the nature of one killing in particular placed him among a narrow and grim subset of criminal cases in American history. The defense framed his schizophrenia and heavy PCP use as central to understanding the spree, though the courts ultimately found him culpable.
From Wikipedia
Marc Vincent Sappington (born February 9, 1978) is an American spree killer and cannibal convicted of murdering four acquaintances in March and April 2001 in Kansas City, Kansas. He gained notoriety for eating part of the leg of one of his victims, Alton "Fred" Brown.
Lawyers for Sappington blamed the four-day killing spree on a history of schizophrenia and daily use of the hallucinogenic drug PCP. Sappington himself claimed that voices in his head told him to eat flesh and blood or he would die.
Sappington was convicted on June 23, 2004, of murdering Terry T. Green, 25, Michael Weaver Jr., 22, and Alton "Fred" Brown Jr., 16 in April 2001. Sappington was convicted on December 10, 2004, of an attempted aggravated robbery and murder of David Mashak at his auto dealership in March 2001. Sappington's conviction was affirmed by the Kansas Supreme Court on November 2, 2007.
In an April 2001 videotape, Sappington had confessed to stabbing Weaver to death, leaving Green's body in a car, and shooting Brown before dismembering his body and eating a small piece of his leg.
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