MARC VINCENT SAPPINGTON | "The Kansas City Vampire" | He Hacked A 16-Year-Old’s Body Into Bite-Size Morsels That He Consumed In His Mother’s Basement | ALS

Marc Sappington. ALS. Commercial #7 (3.75” x 6.75”). Pmk: September 18, 2006. SEALED. Content unknown. Pristine.

• a/k/a: "The Kansas City Vampire"

• Classification: Spree killer

• Characteristics: History of schizophrenia and daily use of the hallucinogenic drug PCP. He gained notoriety for eating part of the leg of one of his victims

• Number of victims: 4

• Date of murders: March-April 2001

• Date of arrest: April 12, 2001

• Date of birth: February 9, 1978

• Victims profile: David Mashak / Terry T. Green, 25 / Michael Weaver Jr., 22 / Alton "Freddie" Brown Jr., 16

• Method of murder: Shooting – Stabbing with knife

• Location: Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kansas, USA

• Status: Sentenced to consecutive sentences of three life terms for three first-degree murders, 79 months for kidnapping, and 32 months for aggravated burglary in July 2004. Sentenced to life imprisonment without parole eligibility for 20 years for first-degree felony murder plus a consecutive term of 130 months' imprisonment for attempted aggravated robbery in September 2004ⁱ

Murder

Marc Vincent Sappington (born February 9, 1978 | age 45) is an American spree killer and cannibal convicted of murdering four acquaintances in March and April 2001 in Kansas City, Kansas. He gained notoriety for eating part of the leg of one of his victims, Alton "Freddie" Brown.

Lawyers for Marc blamed the four-day killing spree on a history of schizophrenia and daily use of the hallucinogenic drug PCP. Marc himself claimed that voices in his head told him to eat flesh and blood or he would die.

Marc was convicted on June 23, 2004, of murdering Terry T. Green, 25, Michael Weaver Jr., 22, and Alton "Freddie" Brown Jr., 16 in April 2001. Marc was convicted on December 10, 2004, of an attempted aggravated robbery and murder of David Mashak at his auto dealership in March 2001. Marc's conviction was affirmed by the Kansas Supreme Court on November 2, 2007.

In an April 2001 videotape, Marc had confessed to stabbing Weaver to death, leaving Green's body in a car, and shooting Brown before dismembering his body and eating a small piece of his leg.ⁱⁱ (Brown's body was found two days before after a resident of the home noticed blood on the basement stairs and called police. Authorities said Brown had been shot to death, with limbs severed.)

Muttering Retreats

No one paid much attention to Marc Sappington in March 2001 as he ambled along the side streets of Kansas City, Kansas. As he walked, Marc weighed his options. “What about him?” he asked. “What about her?”

The questions were part of an attempt to quell the voices Marc was hearing in his head. These voices – auditory hallucinations – were commanding him to harvest human blood and flesh. And what if he didn’t comply? The voices had an answer. They would kill the 21-year-old churchgoer.

“He feared for his own safety,” said one cop who questioned Marc.

Eventually, Marc submitted to the imaginary demands. He killed four people, two of them in a single day. The murders were grisly. Marc tried to suck the blood of two his victims, both of whom were also his friends. This effort in phlebotomy earned him the sobriquet, “Kansas City Vampire.” In another instance, he hacked a 16-year-old’s body into bite-size morsels that he consumed in his mother’s basement. More at Blanco, J. (2023) Marc Sappington | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers, Murderpedia.org. Available at: https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/sappington-marc.htm (Accessed: 4 April 2023).

Alton “Freddie” Brown

Marc claims that because he had not satisfied the commanding voices in his head, he also murdered Fred Alton Brown on April 10. Marc invited Freddie to his house to smoke some "wet" just hours after killing Weaver. Marc shot him in the back with a shotgun when the two went to his basement. Marc attempted to eat a piece of Freddie's leg. He got sick from it, so he went upstairs and fried it. He ate Freddie's cooked flesh and drank some of his blood. Marc then dismembered the body with a maul and a knife.ⁱⁱⁱ

VIDEO: Serial Killer: Marc Sappington (The Kansas City Vampire) | https://youtu.be/Hv3ISDg811U

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