Meet Sandra Lynn Henson, The Alleged Serial Wedding Crasher The Talks Today

Posted by Arica Deslauriers on Sunday, May 19, 2024

A couple’s joyous wedding day celebration in Mississippi was disrupted by an alleged serial wedding crasher, Sandra Lynn Henson, aged 57.

Who is Sandra Lynn Henson?

People say Sandra Henson broke into weddings in Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee and stole money and cards from people who weren’t paying attention.

Sandra Lynn Henson was caught at the wedding of Lexi Loden and Brady Butler in Pontotoc County, which was the last wedding she was supposed to have crashed.

The incident started when Loden Butler’s sister found Henson going through things in the bridal room and even saw her eating a wedding cake.

The Pontotoc Sheriff’s Department said that Henson was taken on September 30 and charged with petty theft, trespassing, and disturbing the peace. Sheriff Leo Mask stated that she was freed on bond since then.

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The latest wedding crash was part of a bigger trend that police say is connected to Henson. Sheriff Mask said that Henson has been charged with wedding crashing more than once, but it was not clear what her convictions were because the cases happened in different states.

Records from the state’s prisons department show that Henson was on parole in Mississippi before her most recent arrest. She had served time there for burglary and grand theft charges.

Police Report on Sandra Lynn Henson

Police say Sandra Lynn Henson from Mississippi has made a lot of money as an unwanted wedding guest and thief.

AL.com, an Alabama news site, says that Henson, 56, was arrested on Saturday in Pontotoc County, Mississippi, for small theft, trespassing, and disturbing the peace at a wedding she had not been invited to.

They had no idea that they had caught the infamous “Mid-South Wedding Crasher.”

It looks like Miss Henson has been caught breaking into weddings and taking money and cards from bags in Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi, according to the Pontotoc County Sheriff’s Office.

News station WATN-TV says that Henson has been a wedding crasher and thief since at least 2017 when she was caught on camera taking from Sarah Ormon’s wedding.

In an interview in 2021, Ormon told the news source, “It was really kind of scary that someone had the nerve to do that.”

But by 2019, it looked like Henson had grown her business. In Florence, Alabama, theft charges were brought in two different cases that year.

After the charges were made public, people who had been to weddings in Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee said they had seen Henson there.

The thief’s plans and targets became clearer at that point.

AL.com says that people saw Henson “taking gift envelopes and cash from purses inside the changing rooms for the wedding party.”

She knew where to look for the wedding gifts. Surprisingly, she didn’t stop being a thief after that.

History of Wedding-Related Thefts

Henson has a past of stealing from weddings that goes back to 2019 when she was charged with two counts of property theft for stealing gifts from two weddings in Alabama. It’s still not clear how those cases will turn out.

Henson was linked to the theft of over $1,000 worth of wedding gifts, cash, and gift cards in her home state of Mississippi in 2021. After that, she was charged with grand theft, pleaded guilty, and was given a five-year probation sentence, according to court records.

The wedding party for Loden and Butler was shocked when a notebook was found among Henson’s things. There was a troubling trend of targeting weddings in the notebook, which had a list of at least seven other weddings and couples in the area.

Lexi Loden Butler was shocked and couldn’t believe what she heard and commented on how sneaky Henson’s actions were. The family originally tried to hide what happened from the newlyweds, but in the end, they called the Pontotoc County police, who arrested Henson.

Even though there were problems on her special day, Loden Butler was thankful for how her family handled it, pointing out that the happiness of their wedding day stayed the same.

The family got praise from Sheriff Mask for being responsible and basically protecting themselves until the police came.

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