Nineteen-year-old college student Jodi Sanderholm was kidnapped by Justin Thurber in January 2007. Sanderholm, who was valedictorian of her high school class and a member of her collegiate dance team, was enjoying the holidays when Thurber took an interest in her and began stalking her outside her dance practice.
Sanderholm was kidnapped by Thurber while checking the mail at her home. Ultimately, she was raped, sodomized, and murdered by Thurber.
Sanderholm's body was found on January 9, 2007. Eventually, authorities arrested Thurber and found evidence that he had stalked a number of young girls and women. Thurber was arrested after his DNA was found under Sanderholm's nails.
Thurber was found guilty of aggravated kidnapping, capital murder, rape, and sodomy and was sentenced to death.
In October 2017, a lawyer unsuccessfully argued that Thurber's sentence should be changed to life in prison because he has an intellectual disability. Thurber previously reportedly told Sanderholm's family he would confess to her murder if the death penalty was removed as an option.
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Thurber remains in prison at the El Dorado Correctional Facility in Butler County, Kansas. He is one of 10 people on death row in the state.
There is more about his case and the other girls and women he stalked in the video below.
