GUILTY NV - Suellen, 31, & Lexis Roberts, 12, Las Vegas, 4 Sept 2010

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Here's a few states he's been in.

fran

PS....we also know he was in Nevada, Arizona, La. The last two while traveling.



http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20110212/NEWS/102120325/1263/RSS

Sanders' parents, brother and ex-wife got a Mississippi court to declare Sanders legally dead in 1994, saying nobody had heard from him in seven years.

That January, he had been arrested in Georgia on two counts of cruelty to children. Court records show he was fined $500 and put on two years' probation.

In November 2002, he was arrested in Clarksville, Tenn., for driving on a revoked license.

Sanders was arrested in Tennessee again in March 2003 and charged with possession of drug paraphernalia.
 
Deputy hailed for work in child-death case

Catahoula Parish Sheriff’s Deputy Toney Edwards will be honored next month for his work on the case of a kidnapped 12-year-old whose remains were found in October.

Edwards will be honored by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children May 18 in Washington.

The case involved Lexis Kaye Roberts, whose remains were found outside Harrisonburg on Oct. 8.
 
http://www.lvrj.com/news/suspect-in...ng-wants-indictment-thrown-out-139768933.html

JACKSON, Miss.-- Attorneys for a man who was declared dead and later charged in the kidnapping and killing of a Las Vegas girl have asked a judge to dismiss one of the indictments against him.

Thomas Steven Sanders was declared dead in Mississippi in 1994 after he abandoned his family seven years earlier. He surfaced years later as suspect in the deaths of 12-year-old Lexis Roberts, whose body was found Oct. 8, 2010, by hunters in Louisiana's Catahoula Parish, and her mother, 31-year-old Suellen Roberts, whose body was found the next month in northwestern Arizona's Yavapai County.
 
Fairy1 said:
http://www.lvrj.com/news/suspect-in...ng-wants-indictment-thrown-out-139768933.html

JACKSON, Miss.-- Attorneys for a man who was declared dead and later charged in the kidnapping and killing of a Las Vegas girl have asked a judge to dismiss one of the indictments against him.

Thomas Steven Sanders was declared dead in Mississippi in 1994 after he abandoned his family seven years earlier. He surfaced years later as suspect in the deaths of 12-year-old Lexis Roberts, whose body was found Oct. 8, 2010, by hunters in Louisiana's Catahoula Parish, and her mother, 31-year-old Suellen Roberts, whose body was found the next month in northwestern Arizona's Yavapai County.
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I just saw this article and was checking to see if it had been posted yet. Thanks Fairy1 for updating this thread. May Lexis and Suellen get the justice they deserve.
 
Prosecutors going for DP. Trial in early 2013. Will keep you all posted when trial time comes around. Hopefully justice will be served and dead man will be a dead man. My attempt at humor may be so wrong to some, but in my heart it is so right. IMOO.
 
http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/ne...election-set-case-man-declared-dead/14182373/

Jury selection is set to begin Monday in the trial of Thomas Steven Sanders, a Mississippi man who was declared dead in 1994 yet resurfaced in 2010 as the suspect in a kidnapping and murder case.

After a series of starts and stops — including trial delays and prosecutors' requests to have the indictments dismissed — U.S. District Judge Dee Drell is ready to begin.

Federal prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
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http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/ne...ders-disputes-killing-federal-crime/15050381/

An attorney for Thomas Sanders acknowledged on the first day of his trial Wednesday that he was responsible for the death of a 12-year-old girl found in Catahoula Parish in 2010...

He is being tried in U.S. District Court in Alexandria on two charges — kidnapping resulting in death and using a firearm in a violent crime that resulted in death. Both charges could carry a death sentence...

Gibbens did not deny that Sanders killed Suellen and Lexis during what she called "a family vacation ... that went terribly, horribly, sadly wrong." She said the defense agrees with the government on most of the facts, but that there are several crucial facts in dispute that will show Sanders should not be tried in federal court.
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http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=36053

A middle-aged, balding man, Sanders sat quietly with his lawyers as the killings were described, periodically wiping his eyes. Dressed in a blue shirt and khakis, he wasn't handcuffed, but U.S. marshals sat nearby...

After opening statements Wednesday, witnesses described finding Lexis Roberts' remains on hunting property.

Photos of a skull with small pink braces still attached to the upper teeth were shown in court, along with a purple unicorn stuffed animal that was found in the woods near Roberts' bones. Sanders' lawyers didn't dispute that the remains were identified as Lexis Roberts.
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a ''family'' vacation that went horribly wrong? -- I am waiting to hear about the 'why' he shot Suellen.

I just don't understand what he could have done to poor Lexis....he must have made sure she could not escape during those long hours to LA from AZ -- poor kid
 
http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/local/2014/09/06/prosecution-rests-case-sanders/15171695/

Attorneys for Sanders, who is accused of kidnapping and killing 12-year-old Lexis Roberts in 2010, moved for an acquittal on day three of his trial in U.S. District Court in Alexandria. The grounds were not guilt but jurisdiction — though the defense team has not disputed that Sanders killed Roberts, attorney Marty Stroud argued he should not be tried in federal court.

"The issue is we're in the wrong court," Stroud said. "These crimes are local crimes."

When Drell denied the motion, it seemingly left Sanders with almost no hope of avoiding a guilty verdict. The government wrapped up a damning case against Sanders Friday...
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http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/ne...ers-found-guilty-kidnapping-killing/15308757/

A jury in Alexandria Monday took just over an hour to convict Thomas Sanders in the 2010 kidnapping and slaying of a 12-year-old girl, a verdict that could result in a death sentence.

Sanders was convicted of both counts — kidnapping resulting in death and using a firearm in a violent crime that resulted in death — in the killing of Lexis Roberts, whose remains were discovered in Catahoula Parish woods in October 2010.

The jury will begin the process next week of deciding whether Sanders will be put to death or likely spend the rest of his life in prison... Court will reconvene at 9:30 a.m. Sept. 16, when the penalty phase of the trial begins.
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http://www.8newsnow.com/story/26638297/man-once-declared-dead-gets-death-penalty

A federal jury in Louisiana gave the death penalty to a Las Vegas man for the kidnapping and murder of a 12-year-old girl...

“This is a heartbreaking case,” said Assistant Attorney General Caldwell. “A young girl witnessed the murder of her mother, was held captive for days, and had her life cut tragically short by a senseless, brutal murder. We hope today's verdict will help Lexis's family as they continue to struggle with the loss of their loved ones.”
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