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Sanders facing two charges in stabbing case
A Greencastle man will appear in Putnam Circuit Court this week after formal charges were filed in the Thursday stabbing of his estranged wife.
On Friday, the Putnam County Prosecutor’s Office filed charges of Level 1 felony attempted murder and Level 3 felony aggravated battery against 41-year-old Glenn D. Sanders, Jr.
Officers responded to Truman Drive in Cloverdale on the report of a stabbing at 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
According to the probable cause affidavit filed by Putnam County Sheriff’s Department Chief Det. Pat McFadden, Deputy Anthony Brown found the victim in a back bedroom, having been stabbed multiple times in the upper legs, buttocks and groin area.
Brown interviewed the victim briefly before she was airlifted to St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis. She reported that her estranged husband, Glenn Sanders, had entered the house and began stabbing her.
The victim lost consciousness before she was airlifted.
The victim’s mother, who owns the house, told investigators that Sanders had knocked on her front door and then immediately entered before she could answer the door. She alleged that he proceeded to the back bedroom.
The mother said she then heard her daughter screaming, “He’s stabbing me.” The mother said she went to the back bedroom and yelled for Sanders to leave, which he did.
With information that Sanders might be headed west on State Road 42, Owen County deputies were notified of the suspect and vehicle description.
They stopped him a short time later and Brown arrived to take him into custody.
He was booked in the Putnam County Jail at 10:08 p.m. and the results of the PCSD investigation were later turned over to the prosecutor’s office.
Sanders is likely to appear in Putnam Circuit Court either Monday or Tuesday.