Michael Sanders' Subsequent Murders
As the above news articles reported, David Bruce Brackney and Michael Martin Sanders were proved to have been accomplices in a home invasion robbery and double murder that occurred on August 31, 1997.
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It remains unknown exactly when Brackney became a criminal accomplice to Sanders, but it is known that Brackney assisted Sanders in framing Ring in the Wells Fargo case.
This photo is of Brackney as he testified at Ring's trial in 1996. MCAO prosecutor Alfred Fenzel called Brackney to testify about Ring's shooting abilities as an I.P.S.C. competitor, with particular attention to Ring's skill with a rifle. This was meant to bolster MCAO Fenzel's trial theory argument that the Wells Fargo driver had been killed from a distance with a precise "sniper shot" through a 6" to 8" gap between the vehicle and its open door as the driver sat smoking.
Post-conviction ballistics testing disproved MCAO Fenzel's trial theory, but Arizona's courts refused to overturn Ring's convictions because this truth would prevent MCAO from winning at a retrial.
* See: DOCUMENTATION, The Ballistics, for further details.
Brackney had always claimed to have been a U.S. Navy SEAL and was considered for inclusion in one of Ring's Mexico operations, but he was ultimately excluded due to his federal employment and his lack of physical conditioning. During Ring's trial, Brackney falsely testified that the operation had been cancelled by the FBI because it would've been a crime.
* See: DOCUMENTATION, The Mexico Operations, for a DOJ/FBI public report that describes such operations as a preferred method of the United States under the Ker-Frisbie doctrine.