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'He's Ripping
Her Apart,'
Chimp Owner
Screams on
911 Call

Feb 18, 2009 4:58 AM CST

'He's Ripping Her Apart,' Chimp Owner Screams on 911 Call

Owner gave pet Xanax before it attacked friend

(Newser) - "He's killing my girlfriend! He's eating her!" the frantic owner of a chimpanzee screamed in a call to police as the animal viciously attacked her friend. "You have to shoot him!" the Connecticut woman tells the dispatcher in a chilling tape of the call as the...

Chimp Shot
After Vicious
Attack on Woman

Feb 17, 2009 3:33 AM CST

Chimp Shot After Vicious Attack on Woman

Victim fighting for her life after Connecticut family's pet goes berserk

(Newser) - Connecticut police shot dead a pet chimpanzee yesterday after it critically injured a woman in a vicious attack, the Stamford Advocate reports. The owner of the 200-pound chimp stabbed it with a butcher knife after it leaped on her visiting friend for no apparent reason. A police officer who arrived...

Baby Killed by
Grandma's Dogs

Feb 8, 2009 4:00 AM CST

Baby Killed by Grandma's Dogs

Infant's death renews calls for tougher laws

(Newser) - A sleeping infant was killed by his grandmother’s two dogs yesterday, the Times of London reports. “The grandmother was screaming, ‘The baby is dead!’” said one neighbor, who witnessed a "severe injury" to the baby's neck. Another speculated the dogs were jealous of the...

Kinky Lawyer Gets 15-to-Life in Horrific
Dog Maul Death

Sep 23, 2008 3:57 AM CDT

Kinky Lawyer Gets 15-to-Life in Horrific Dog Maul Death

'Blamed' victim 'left to die alone,' says judge

(Newser) - The owner of a dog who fatally mauled a neighbor as she watched has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for murder, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. Lawyer Marjorie Knoller lost control of her vicious 140-pound dog, who attacked neighbor Diane Whipple in 2001 in the hallway...