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.”
OK shoot her with a silver bullet.
If she would just drop me a line when she goes into heat,
I’d come sniffing around. Howl like a wolf, B*tch!
I'd suggest some serious reflection on eaxctly where the blood on her mouth came from !
That’s why they make Muzzles.
Come to think of it, she’d look GOOD in a muzzle.
Oh, wait.
Y’know, on second thought, she should go to the plastic surgeon, too. She’s got a nose like a Doberman Pinscher.
Yes, I’m serious...she’s as nutty as a fruitcake.
With a rolled up newspaper?
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