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Man who fatally stabbed hiker on Appalachian Trail found not guilty by reason of insanity Tom Jackman © US Attorney for Western District of Va./U.S. Attorney for Western District of Va. Ronald S. Sanchez Jr., 43, an Iraq War veteran, was slain on the Appalachian Trail in May 2019 by James L. Jordan. A man who terrorized a group of hikers on the Appalachian Trail in Southwest Virginia in 2019, stabbing two people, one of them fatally, has been found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to a psychiatric hospital until he is no longer a danger to society. James L. Jordan, 32, admitted that he fatally stabbed Ronald S. Sanchez Jr., 43, a 16-year Army veteran who spent three tours in Iraq as a combat engineer. Sanchez was attempting to hike the entire 2,192 mile length of the Appalachian Trail, and had set up camp in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forest with three other people he met on the trail early on May 11, 2019. Jordan, known t

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