Madison, WI Double Homicide Trial Ends in Life Sentencing

NBC News reports that on Monday, 20-year-old Khari Sanford was convicted of the first-degree intentional homicides of 52-year-old Dr. Beth Potter and her husband 57-year-old Robin Carre. Sanford, who was the boyfriend of Potter and Carre’s daughter Miriam, murdered Miriam’s parents on the night of March 30th, 2020, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.

According to NBC News, Sanford’s motivations as presented in the trial derived from tension in his relationship with Miriam, his sense that Potter and Carre didn’t respect him, and his frustration with the COVID safety restrictions set in the Potter-Carre home. When Sanford wouldn’t comply with these regulations, he and Miriam were moved into an Airbnb paid for by her parents, the Wisconsin State Journal reports.

On the night of the 30th, Sanford picked up his friend Ali’jah Larrue in Carre’s van, then kidnapped Potter and Carre from their Madison home at gunpoint. Larrue, who pleaded guilty to felony murder in 2021 but has not yet been sentenced, provided major testimony in the case, including his role in driving the couple to the University of Wisconsin Arboretum, asserts the Wisconsin State Journal. Sanford shot both Potter and Carre in the head and left their bodies at the arboretum.

The Wisconsin State Journal details additional evidence used in the case, including March 31st surveillance video from an ATM on South Park Street, where a man presumed to be Sanford attempted to “withdraw money seven different times,” but failed without the PINs of the debit cards the prosecution claimed were Potter’s and Carre’s. Sanford was arrested on April 2nd allegedly wearing the same sweatshirt seen in the surveillance video, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.

Sanford faces a mandatory life sentence for each of the homicides, and the chance of his eligibility for parole has not yet been decided.