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An Oklahoma man who killed his fishing buddy out of fear that he was about to be sacrificed to Sasquatch was found guilty of first-degree murder in a rather speedy trial that featured something of a surprising twist. The headline-making case saw Larry Sanders accused of killing Jimmy Knighten during a July of 2022 fishing trip wherein he had come to believe that the victim had summoned Bigfoot to eat him. In a surprising development at the start of the trial on Tuesday, his attorney reportedly pivoted from the expected argument that Sanders was guilty by reason of insanity and, instead, posited that the fisherman was innocent because he had acted in self-defense.
More on this wild story at the Coast to Coast AM website.