Lilly committed his first crime on March 20, 1980, when he was arrested on charges of animal cruelty. The next year, he moved to Jacksonville, Florida, where he was legally adopted by a man named Al Sapp, which caused Lilly to change his last name to Sapp. In 1988, Sapp married a woman named Karen, and together they moved back to Ohio, settling in Sapp's hometown of Springfield and having three children. (born 1988, 1994, and 1995). In 1991, Sapp set fire to a log cabin close in proximity to his father's home.
