A grieving daughter has blasted the man who brutally murdered his mother and ate her heart for bragging about his horrific crimes from behind bars. Lawrence Paul Anderson, 44, was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Andrea Blankenship, 41, and his own uncle Leon Pye, 67, along with four-year-old niece Kaeos Yates in February 2021.
Anderson, who had forced his way into Andrea’s home, cut out her heart after killing her and cooked it “with potatoes” as part of a sick plan to feed it to his family and “release the demons”. He also launched a shocking attack on his aunt, 66-year-old Delsie Pye, during which he gouged out one of her eyes. Anderson had been released early from jail only a few weeks earlier.
Now, Ms Blankenship’s daughter, Haylee, has spoken of the emotional pain caused by recent photographs circulating of Anderson appearing to enjoy life behind bars.
She told Oklahoma TV station KWTV that she had seen images of him on Facebook “smiling and laughing and having a party”, going on to say: “Could you imagine being a victim of your mom getting dismembered and murdered? And then her murderer is literally on Facebook smiling and laughing and having a party?”
Haylee also believes that Anderson may be accessing Facebook from inside the prison to send disturbing messages to her family.
One message she received on Facebook – addressed from “the heart eater” – targeted her boyfriend and said: “I can get my lil folks to gut him like a [redacted] hog.”
She added: “He’s bragging about being a heart eater and obviously makes me feel terrible and retraumatised and miserable.”
Haylee questioned how he had been able to log on to Facebook while in prison, and suggested he had likely acquired a mobile phone despite these been banned in state prisons.
The Oklahoma Department of Corrections confirmed that inmates were not permitted to use mobile phones, and said in a statement to local media: “ODOC does not tolerate criminal behaviour within our facilities.
“Our inmates are not allowed to use cell phones and social media.
“We take swift action and hold them accountable for their actions when we learn of such behaviour.”
Anderson is serving five life sentences with the possibility of parole.
Anderson was released from prison less than a month before the murders in February 2021 after his 20-year prison sentence for drug-related crimes was commuted by Governor Kevin Stitt, following a recommendation from the state Pardon and Parole Board.
A grand jury investigation later found Anderson was wrongly placed on the commutation docket, a list of prisoners who are eligible for having their sentences reduced.
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