Lawrence Paul Anderson: Man Tries to Force His Family to Eat Murder Victim

Lawrence Paul Anderson was released from prison less than a month before murdering 3 people.

Oklahoma man Lawrence Paul Anderson, plead guilty to murdering a woman, cutting out her heart, and then cooking it and serving it to his family.

Who is Lawrence Paul Anderson?

Lawrence Paul Anderson in prison. Photo: Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.

Lawrence Paul Anderson is a 44 year old man from Chickasha, Oklahoma. He has spent much of his life in and out of prison for drug related charges.

Anderson was given a 20-year prison term in 2017 due to violating probation on a drug-related case. Republican Governor Kevin Stitt reduced the sentence to nine years in prison, and as a result, Anderson was freed after serving slightly over three years.

According to court documents, less than a month after being released from prison, Anderson had killed three people: Andrea Lynn Blankenship, 41, Leon Pye, 67, and Kaeos Yates, 4.

The murders of ANdrea Blankenship, Leon Pye and Kaeos Yates.

On the 9th February, 2021 Lawrence Paul Anderson broke into the home of his neighbor Andrea Blankenship.

He then stabbed her repeatedly, cut out her heart and took it back to the home of his aunt and uncle who he had been staying with since his release from prison.

Once there he cooked Andrea’s heart and tried to serve it to his aunt and uncle, with a side of potatoes. He believed doing this would release the demons trapped within Andrea.

When his aunt and uncle refused to eat the meal, Anderson became furious and attacked them, murdering his uncle and gouging out the eyes of his aunt as well as stabbing her multiple times. He also killed the couple’s 4 year old granddaughter.

Lawrence Paul Anderson admitted in court to brutally murdering his uncle Leon Pye, Pye's 4-year-old granddaughter Kaeos Yates, and Andrea Lynn Blankenship in Chickasha, Oklahoma in February 2021.

Anderson pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder, one count of assault and battery with a deadly weapon, and one count of maiming on Wednesday. As a result, his sentence was reduced from death to five counts of life in prison, with three of those sentences without the possibility of parole.