[1][2] He gained notoriety for eating part of the leg of one of his victims, Alton "Fred" Brown.
[3] 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.
[1] 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.
[1] Sappington was convicted on December 10, 2004, of an attempted aggravated robbery and murder of David Mashak at his auto dealership in March 2001.