Posted on 12/16/2017 2:07:04 PM PST by BenLurkin
Bethany Lynn Stephens had been gone for about a day since she left to walk her dogs. So her father went out to look for her at the area she frequented.
There, authorities say, he found her two dogs, guarding what he first thought was an animal carcass.
“Much to his horror, discovered that it was not,” Goochland County Sheriff Jim Agnew told reporters at a news conference Friday.
Investigators in Goochland, Va., a rural community about 30 miles outside of Richmond, say the petite, 5-foot-1 young woman, who weighed a little more than 100 pounds, was mauled to death by her dogs, which had a combined weight of about twice hers, while out on a walk earlier this week. Her father found her Thursday evening in a wooded area that used to be a farm, about a half a mile from the main road...
“The dogs clearly, at least in our estimation in a dark night, had something to do with this. It was an absolutely grisly mauling,” Agnew told reporters. “In my 40 years of law enforcement, I’ve never seen anything quite like it. Hope I’d never see anything like it again.”
Officials from the county’s animal control department and sheriff’s office spent at least an hour trying to tranquilize the animals, Agnew said. Investigators also found bloody articles of clothing scattered in the area.
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Apart from incredible hunger or rabies what would cause dogs to do that?
Unusual dog behavior for sure.
Some dogs have such a high prey drive that they literally lose their minds when it is activated. These dogs were obviously too much for her to handle.
Is Benlurkin Chet99?
Her mistake was not taking proper assessment of her interests in owning a dog and her capabilities in handling dogs. She paid with her life.
No, I am not Chet99.
He is/was big on trains, iirc.
Oh ok.
I was just checking. It is a sad and unfortunate case.
Sounds like a third actor is involved. A wild dog or wolf or cougar.
Where would you like to go for a walk today, Grendel? What about you, Brutus? What, in the woods you say, far from the public? My, how lucky I am to have such large dogs to look after me.
Might have something to do with the dogs being pit bulls.
No that was Willie Green. Chet99 was the king of pitbull threads.
I’m guessing housecat.
Nope. Pit bulls. Normal behavior
It stand corrected.
Pit bulls don’t need help
The media calls everything "pit bulls."
Her friend doesn’t think it adds up. Doesn’t look like the sharpest knife in the drawer, but that is just her physical appearance and speaking mannerisms, but hey, I could be wrong.
Shouldn’t be too hard to confirm. Any blood or tissue on the dogs beyond the feet? That’s probably your answer there.
Of course, this is the Washington Post, and the video was stupid. “We are told Stevens weighed 120 lbs, and each of her dogs did too for a total of 250 lbs...”
Okay. Doesn’t add up. If they mean the two dogs together did too, well maybe.
Agreed. I had one of the last known ‘discussions’ with Willie Green on FR. Yes, chet99 was the pitbull guy.
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