jury reviewed 106 mitigating factors proposed to them by the defense, among them a number of questions regarding Sanders' mental health. No jurors believed Sanders to be mentally ill before, during or after the shooting death of Suellen Roberts and the kidnapping and killing of her daughter, Lexis.
He met Suellen Roberts there, and the two began a romantic relationship, which came to a tragic end when Sanders, Suellen and Lexis Roberts went away together over the Labor Day holiday in 2010. After visiting a wildlife park near the Grand Canyon in Arizona, Sanders shot Suellen Roberts with a .22-
Though Sanders was specific in his descriptions of the placement of Suellen Roberts' body and in the way he killed Lexis, he told mental health experts he couldn't or wouldn't talk about anything else.
