Medicine Hat News

Former Stamps player charged with murder

- LINDSAY WHITEHURST

SALT LAKE CITY A former CFL player sliced his wife’s neck and then crawled on the ground outside their rented Utah condominiu­m before flagging down a police officer, prosecutor­s said in murder charges filed Monday.

The bloody scene in the ski town of Park City indicated that Keri “KC” McClanahan, 28, put up a desperate struggle before she was killed. The weapon was a small, sharp knife she’d worn sheathed in a nylon paracord bracelet, charging documents state.

Police found her husband, Anthony D. McClanahan, 46, covered in blood and crawling on his stomach outside early in the morning of Nov. 2. He lifted himself up just enough to flag down a police officer, then dropped back down and began convulsing, his arms making a “snow angel motion,” the officer on scene told prosecutor­s.

Anthony McClanahan was treated for minor injuries and originally told officers he and his wife and baby had been attacked. Investigat­ors, though, found no evidence of anyone else going into the building or of a baby at the Park Regency.

His wife’s body was found in the condominiu­m he had rented after someone else at the building called 911, saying they’d seen him crawling low to the ground through the hallways and calling for help. Keri McClanahan suffered several cuts to the front, back and sides of her neck, as well as other defensive wounds.

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