Skinwalker in the desert under a blood moon. The murder of Sarah Saganitso and the Skinwalker Defense The Skinwalker Defense: The Murder of Sarah Saganitso and the Trial that Shocked Flagstaff Victim & Setting On the morning of June 17, 1987 , searchers found the body of Sarah L. Saganitso , a 40-year-old Navajo mother and longtime housekeeper at Flagstaff Medical Center , in a wooded, rocky area just behind the hospital. The Coconino County Sheriff’s Office lists her as “fou