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But can he help the local high school basketball team win the big game?
Out in Kentucky, William “Billy” Sartin is facing two murder charges. The charges stem from Sartin being convinced that the now-murdered men were trying to poison him by putting things in his coffee. This isn’t the first time Sartin’s had legal troubles, and they all stem from some severe mental illness - twice he’s been found incompetent to stand trial, and he’s also been involuntarily committed before, for a three year term.
Along with the standard run-of-mill mental illness, Sartin also has a more unique problem - he’s been described as having “at times ‘mentally devolved into a wolflike state.’” For example, he’s been seen running naked through the woods, even at times when he wasn’t being chased by the cops. And after the alleged murders, his family says that he ran off to hide in the woods for two days, only returning home to take a bath.
In fact, a judge familiar with Sartin says that he’s not actually a werewolf, but that he does have great strength and stamina which makes it difficult for the cops when they have to go after him:
I’m telling you, he was the fastest thing on two, or four feet, whichever way you want to say it….You couldn’t catch him with a car, or a four-wheeler, if he was in the woods.
