The Big Picture: Chatham County Man Charged in Wife's Stabbing Death

Monday, July 25, 2011

Chatham County Man Charged in Wife's Stabbing Death

As reported by savannahnow.com, a Chatham County man has been accused in his wife's murder.

...Police say [Kenneth Sanders] stabbed her to death in front of her three daughters, ages 4, 7 and 9.

Kenneth Sanders has been charged with murder, aggravated assault, possession of a knife in committing a crime and cruelty to children. He’s being held in the mental health wing of the Chatham County jail.

The girls are staying with their grandparents, Nancy Sanders’ mother and father, in Savannah.

LaVonya Oliver, the couple’s 20-year-old neighbor, called police after Nancy’s 7-year-old daughter rang her doorbell covered in blood.

“She said, ‘Can you help me because my daddy is stabbing my mommy,” Oliver said.

Our thoughts and prayers are with the Sanders family.

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