Posted on 02/01/2010 10:31:15 AM PST by dragnet2
Wolfie Blackheart is not an ordinary 18-year-old.
She believes she is a wolf — technically, a werewolf — and so she wears a tail. She also wears a harness in case someone special wants to drag her around.
And last week, she used a pocketknife in her kitchen to decapitate a dog — already dead, according to Wolfie — that had been missing since Jan. 5.
“I severed the head, boiled the head,” Wolfie said. “People make the mistake of hacking the spine, which will fracture the skull.”
She added, “You also have to put (the head) outside for the brains to leak out.”
Before the teenager carted the cranium to the woods, someone held it up and snapped a photograph of it inside her Northwest Side house — a shot that ended up on the Internet.
Within days, the photo had spurred an aggressive animal cruelty investigation by Animal Care Services and the San Antonio Police Department.
It also inspired at least one so-called troll — a savvy, anonymous Internet user — to hack into Wolfie’s personal accounts, engage in amateur sleuthing and issue threats to those deemed responsible for the dog’s fate.
Bearing the brunt of these attacks, Wolfie — born Sarah Rodriguez — says she’s guilty of nothing more than an abiding love for taxidermy.
“I would never kill a canine,” she said. “I am a canine.”
Lisa Rodriguez, Wolfie’s mom, said she supports her daughter’s career goal.
“I say, ‘Don’t sever heads in front of me,' ” she said. “She usually does it in the woods.”
Wolfie cares lovingly for two huskies in the backyard.
Her room is a cluttered den plastered with posters of anime characters and howling wolves. On a high shelf, she collects heads, including the cleaned skulls of a coyote, ram and wild boar.
When a car ran over Pixie — her “best friend” — Wolfie cut off the chihuahua’s tiny head, cleaned it and placed it in a jar.
She said investigators knocked on her door Friday with a search warrant.
“When they saw her room, they had to call every single cop to her room,” said her mother, who lives in the home. “The spots on the wall, they thought it was blood. It’s catsup. The kids had a fight. They’re teenagers.”
She added, “Wolfie does have a bloody refrigerator, but they’re all dead animals.”
Crime scene investigators swabbed the walls. Authorities confiscated the dog’s head. No one could find the body.
‘The sweetest dog’
A friend dropped off a stray dog last year at the Northwest Side house of Kathy Silva, and the mother of four wasn’t enthralled.
“Don’t get too used to him,” she told her daughters.
But the black-flecked chow mix won the family members’ hearts. They named him Rigsby, after the road on which he was found.
“He started being real protective of the kids and our house,” Silva said. “He was the sweetest dog ever.”
Her 14-year-old daughter promised to care for the new pet. She even offered her own birthday money to pay for the dog’s shots.
But on Jan. 5, Rigsby went missing from the family’s backyard.
Two weeks later, on Jan. 20, a teenager — likely a troll — stopped Silva near her home. Clutching a crumpled piece of paper, he told her he was conducting a survey on dogs in the neighborhood.
“We used to have a dog,” Silva told him, “but he ran away.”
That same day, a neighbor showed Silva a Web site with the photo of a dog’s severed head. That site and others included inflammatory and convoluted theories about who had done it.
“My heart pretty much sank,” Silva said, “because when I saw that picture, I said, ‘That’s Rigsby.’”
She called police.
Investigators studied the Web site, noting a post from a user who wrote that the dog had been hit by a car and “it would be fun to desecrate the corpse,” according to an affidavit for a search warrant.
Authorities also noted the criminal history of Wolfie, whose name appeared on the site.
A dropout since ninth grade, Wolfie walked onto a campus in the Northside ISD a year or two ago with a “large curved blade” that “looks like it’s used to cut someone’s head off,” according to the affidavit.
She was arrested and charged with possession of the weapon.
“I can explain that,” Wolfie’s mother said. “That was a skinning knife.”
In dire need of a Holy Spirit conversion....this girl is in spiritual bondage of evil... no doubt! Any parent who would allow this crap to foster in their child is demented as well.
Of course, she needs to have the Democrat driven out of her.
They said the same about some of Manson's girlfriends.
She should be easy to find.
Take some milk bones with ya.
“Arf !”
I don’t know about this girl Wolfie, but Princess Mononoke is a great movie!
I’d hit it...
Given that animals are legally treated as property, who owned the dog’s body once it had been killed?
That makes her a wolfwoman I suppose. Where is the dad in this mess?
Hey in 15-20 years she’ll be a cougar.
You and Laz. I’d wait ‘til she had all her rabies shots first.
Well, Duh...
...Career goal???
You didn’t know that the Wolf Girl at the side show was a career? Shame on you.
“Mamas, don’t your babies grow up to be deranged wolfwoman dog decapitators...”
(with apologies to Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson)
“I can explain that,” Wolfie’s mother said. “That was a skinning knife.”
Possible new tag line.
Boiled the head?
No self-respecting werewolf would ever cook its food before eating it. Didn’t she read the manual?
Perfect timing here, by the way; the movie “The Wolfman” opens Feb 12.
What’s the difference between this and a guy in a dress who wants to use the Ladies Room? By the way. What rest room does Wolfe use or does she just go in the woods?
She has applied with the city animal control department in San Antonio.
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