| Keir Sanders was affectionately called K.D. by his | | | | D.'s violent outbursts and afraid for their lives. In |
| family. His mother often reminisces about how bright | | | | December of 1985, following an argument, Keir |
| and creative he was as a boy. K.D. loved drawing, | | | | Sanders had shot both his grandparents and beaten |
| sketching and painting and enjoyed fiddling with | | | | his grandfather to death with a hammer. The |
| gadgets, clocks and radios as a child. He had a sweet | | | | grandmother soon died of her wounds, too. By the |
| disposition and was affectionate and helpful with his | | | | time police had arrived, alerted by Sanders' mother, he |
| mother and grandparents. The little boy was the apple | | | | had fled in the family car. No one had seen or heard |
| of everyone's eye in the Sanders family. | | | | from him since. |
| The grown up Keir Sanders had been wanted for | | | | Then, in December of 2005, Texas police had picked |
| double murder for 20 years. As a teenager, K. D. was | | | | up a homeless man whose name and date of birth |
| diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and spent | | | | matched those of a man wanted for a double murder |
| several years at a mental institution. Later, although his | | | | in Mississippi. They quickly alerted Mississippi police, and |
| grandparents knew their 21-year-old grandson was | | | | after background checks, DNA tests and careful |
| potentially dangerous, they still decided to have him | | | | questioning, they indeed confirmed that this was their |
| move with them to a peaceful retirement community. | | | | man. In fact, Sanders willingly offered his confession, |
| They believed it would have a therapeutic effect on | | | | was transferred to Mississippi and comfortably placed |
| his condition. | | | | behind bars, his shelter and meals taken care of for |
| The elderly couple was soon feeling terrorized by K. | | | | the rest of his life. |