TikTok influencer’s ex-husband seeks to block alleged killer’s beneficiaries from her estate

Sara Gilson’s second husband “intentionally and feloniously” took her life in an apparent murder-suicide, and his beneficiaries “should be barred from inheriting her estate,” court filings say.

The ex-husband of the social media influencer who authorities say died at the hands of her estranged second husband in an apparent murder-suicide has sued to block the alleged killer’s beneficiaries from inheriting any portion of her estate.

In a four-page court filing, Lyle Landers claimed that his ex-wife, TikTok influencer Sara Gilson, died without a will. She “left an estate consisting of personal property” in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Landers’ lawyers wrote.

Landers and Gilson had two children together before she married Jeremiah Shawn Duffey. Duffey, 48, fatally shot Gilson, 43, in Owasso, Oklahoma, on July 23, according to the local police department. She had publicly accused him of pedophilia days earlier.

In the court filing, Landers’ lawyers wrote that because Duffey “intentionally and feloniously took” Gilson’s life, any of his beneficiaries “should be barred from inheriting her estate.”

Landers’ lawyers cited an Oklahoma law informally known as “the slayer statute,” which blocks a person who killed someone from inheriting the person’s money or property.