Marc Sappington
Police allege that after smoking hallucinagenic drugs, Marc Sappington believe he was instructed to kill for the sake of cannibabilism. Cannibalism was the motive in the killings of 16-year-old Alton Brown Jr.; 22-year-old Michael Weaver Jr.; and 25-year-old Terry T. Green. All lived in Kansas City, Kansas.
Only Brown's body was mutilated.
Detectives testified that in his statement to police, Sappington said he cooked and ate a small amount of Brown's flesh.
Brown's mother, Tammy Saunders, was in the courtroom Thursday, along with several other relatives. Saunders sobbed quietly as a police officer described finding her son's body.
The body was found in four trash bags in the basement of Sappington's home. Sappington lived with his mother in the 1300 block of Troup Avenue in northeast Kansas City, Kan.
Sappington told police that when he smoked a hallucinogenic drug, voices told him to "eat flesh and drink blood." Zeigler testified that Sappington ate a small amount of Brown's flesh and planned to freeze the remainder to eat later.
Judge J. Dexter Burdette also bound over Sappington in the unrelated slaying of 25-year-old David Mashak, who died March 16 during an attempted robbery at an automobile detailing shop on State Avenue in Kansas City, Kan.
In addition, Sappington was bound over on charges of kidnapping and aggravated burglary in the April 10 abduction of a woman at Ninth Street and Walker Avenue in Kansas City, Kan.
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