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~ Anthony Sanchez, 21Sep23, (OK) ~
By: BuzzC Date: August 18, 2023, 9:01 am
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Oklahoma death row inmate convicted of murdering college dance
student claims his father is the actual killer--
February 8th, 2023
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An Oklahoma death row inmate convicted of raping and killing a
University of Oklahoma dance student in 1996 is seeking to have
his death sentence thrown out, alleging in a court filing that
his late father is the actual killer.
Attorneys for Anthony Sanchez, 44, asked the Court of Criminal
Appeals for an evidentiary hearing, and say his convictions and
sentences should be vacated. In their filing, attorneys allege
that Sanchez's father, Thomas Glen Sanchez, is the actual killer
of 21-year-old Juli Busken.
In 1996, police discovered the body of Juli Busken, a student at
the University of Oklahoma. She was raped and murdered.
Thomas Glen Sanchez died last year. A former girlfriend of
Thomas Glen Sanchez claims he confessed more than once to
killing Busken, but that she was afraid to come forward until
after he died.
"Glen said more than once that he 'should have done a better
job' of killing Ms. Busken," the girlfriend wrote in 2021, the
Oklahoman reported.
"Once he said he ... enjoyed watching her die," she wrote,
according to the newspaper. "Glen said that he regretted Anthony
was on death row for something Glen did. But he said that
Anthony was tough and could deal with being locked up, whereas
Glen wasn't strong enough to adapt to being incarcerated."
Busken, from Benton, Arkansas, had just completed her last
semester at OU when she was abducted on Dec. 20, 1996, from her
Norman apartment complex. Her body was found that evening in
southeast Oklahoma City. She had been raped and shot in the
head.
The slaying went unsolved for years until DNA recovered from her
clothes linked Anthony Sanchez to the crime. He was convicted of
rape and murder — and sentenced to die in 2006.
"I'm so thankful that we've got DNA now that will take any
element of doubt out of it," Juli's father, Bud Busken, told "60
Minutes" in 2004.
Former Cleveland County District Attorney Tim Kuykendall said
that while the DNA evidence was perhaps the most compelling,
there was other evidence that linked Anthony Sanchez to the
killing, including ballistic evidence and a shoe print found at
the crime scene.
"I know from spending a lot of time on that case, there is not
one piece of evidence that pointed to anyone other than Anthony
Sanchez," Kuykendall said. "I don't care if a hundred people or
a thousand people confess to killing Juli Busken.
"I think this is just a ploy by his family and defense team to
detract from his guilt."
Anthony Sanchez is currently housed at the Oklahoma State
Penitentiary in McAlester. He is scheduled to be put to death by
lethal injection on Sept. 21.
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Re: ~ Anthony Sanchez, 21Sep23, (OK) ~
By: BuzzC Date: September 21, 2023, 2:19 pm
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Oklahoma executes man for 1996 killing of college dance
student--
Thursday, September 21st, 2023
Oklahoma executed Anthony Sanchez on Thursday for the 1996
killing of Juli Busken, a University of Oklahoma dance student,
the state's attorney general announced. Sanchez, 44, was
convicted of raping and murdering Busken in 2006 after his DNA
was matched to the slaying while he was serving a burglary
sentence.
Sanchez was executed by lethal injection, which the state
resumed using after a six-year moratorium. He was pronounced
dead at 10:19 a.m. CDT, according to the Associated Press. State
Attorney General Gentner Drummond was among those who attended
the execution.
"Justice was served today for Juli Busken nearly 27 years after
her life tragically was taken," Drummond said in a statement.
"My hope is that today can bring some measure of peace to her
family and friends."
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