3-2-2015 Michigan:SAGINAW, MI -- When given the chance, a convicted murderer had straightforward explanation for killing his cellmate in October at the Saginaw Correctional Facility.
"The reason I killed him was because he was a child molester," Steven D. Sandison said Monday, Feb. 23, in Saginaw County Circuit Court.
Speaking during his plea hearing before Chief Circuit Judge Fred L. Borchard, the 51-year-old Sandison was polite, addressing the judge as "sir," in explaining why he killed Theodore Dyer on Oct. 29 at the prison in Freeland.
At Borchard's request, Sandison first answered questions from his attorney, James Gust, to establish a "factual basis" for why he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. After answering "Yes" to several of Gust's questions, Sandison then provided his explanation.
"But," Gust then asked, "you did, in fact, kill him?"
"Oh, sure," Sandison said. "Oh, sure, of course."
Borchard later in the hearing asked Sandison how he killed the 67-year-old Dyer.
"If it's all right," Sandison replied, "I can tell you where it started."
"Go ahead," Borchard said.
