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Autopsy: 22-year-old was mauled to death by her own dogs
http://www.fox5ny.com/ ^ | 2/21/18

Posted on 02/23/2018 3:29:05 AM PST by BBell

GOOCHLAND, Va. (AP) - The autopsy of a Virginia woman found dead in a wooded area says she was mauled to death by her dogs.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that the Goochland Sheriff's Office announced Tuesday it's closing the investigation into 22-year-old Bethany Lynn Stephens' death in light of the results. Stephens was found last December near her father's home in Goochland, about 35 miles from Richmond.

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TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Society
KEYWORDS: chet99; dogs; mauledtodeath; pittbulls
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To: ChiMark

Forensics indicate without a doubt that those two dogs attacked and killed her? Pardon me but I somehow disbelieve that. There were lurid stories circulating that they were eating her body when police arrived too. Do you believe that? I don’t.


21 posted on 02/23/2018 4:09:56 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Tax-chick

Former boyfriend, hispanic. She’d recently broken off with him, gotten engaged to another guy.


22 posted on 02/23/2018 4:10:54 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: GingisK

Yup, they loved her to death. I doubt she was in complete bond with them. IIRC, she had been absent from them and was not on a day today contact with them. She decided to take them both for a walk. Many different things can set off a terrier, especially a pit bull. Something as simple as a squeal if she had tripped and fell or trying to get between the two if they had a dust up. We will never know what caused them to snap, but they did and she is dead.


23 posted on 02/23/2018 4:11:07 AM PST by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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To: sphinx

http://www.fox5ny.com/news/virginia-woman-found-dead-in-woods-mauled-by-her-two-pit-bulls


24 posted on 02/23/2018 4:18:08 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: RegulatorCountry
"Forensics indicate without a doubt that those two dogs attacked and killed her? Pardon me but I somehow disbelieve that."

“I observed, as well as four other deputy sheriffs observed,” Agnew said, then paused before continuing, “the dogs eating the rib cage on the body.”
Link

"We was framed!"

25 posted on 02/23/2018 4:20:18 AM PST by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

When dogs kill or maim in this country, they are overwhelmingly likely to be some form of pit bull.

It is simply irresponsible to have them as “pets” or “protection”.

There is something wrong with your understanding of pit-bull pets.


26 posted on 02/23/2018 4:20:51 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: ChiMark

no, you are correct.The people in my little neighborhood that own pits are straight-up ghetto


27 posted on 02/23/2018 4:23:50 AM PST by ronniesgal (still winning !!)
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To: 9YearLurker

I’ve been exposed to them and am not prone to hysteria regarding them. To people who want them all exterminated, that sounds as if there’s “something wrong” with my understanding. Yes there are unstable, aggressive dogs and pit bulls lead the pack, with drug dealers and wannabe bad-asses. Those dogs have been bred by unscrupulous backyard breeders who actually want aggression. Those are the minority however. Victor, the dog on the old RCA logo was a pit bull. Petey on Little Rascals and Our Gang was a pit bull. I’m just not hysterical about it as so many are, including you apparently.


28 posted on 02/23/2018 4:25:48 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

The article said here torso and arms were chewed not eaten. It’s appears to be all too common. One small boy here in our town was severely mauled by his lovely pit bull. The dog ate away muscle in his calves. Handicapped for life.

When they go native it’s dangerous.


29 posted on 02/23/2018 4:28:37 AM PST by ChiMark (America America)
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To: RegulatorCountry

the dog on the old RCA logo.

Nipper is his name.


30 posted on 02/23/2018 4:31:58 AM PST by Gasshog ( Fight climate change - Try beating the air and scream at the sky)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Again you are quite mistaken re:

1) https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-wrong-dog

2) that because all pit bulls don’t kill they are as a breed safe around people. And they were bred to kill long before we had modern drug dealers.


31 posted on 02/23/2018 4:38:17 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: RegulatorCountry
I’ve been exposed to them and am not prone to hysteria regarding them. To people who want them all exterminated, that sounds as if there’s “something wrong” with my understanding. Yes there are unstable, aggressive dogs and pit bulls lead the pack, with drug dealers and wannabe bad-asses. Those dogs have been bred by unscrupulous backyard breeders who actually want aggression. Those are the minority however. Victor, the dog on the old RCA logo was a pit bull. Petey on Little Rascals and Our Gang was a pit bull. I’m just not hysterical about it as so many are, including you apparently.

Pit bull control acvocates, sound a lot like gun control advocates. It is always the objects fault, never the humans behind the incident; in this case the breeder and the owner.
32 posted on 02/23/2018 4:40:53 AM PST by ThinkingBuddha
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To: BBell

Pit bull owners often tend to be ex-convicts who can’t legally possess firearms. They keep the pit bulls as weapons.


33 posted on 02/23/2018 4:42:21 AM PST by familyop (President Trump said that we're all important, so let's do something!)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Protecting a dreamer?


34 posted on 02/23/2018 4:44:30 AM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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To: 9YearLurker

Ah yes, the New Yorker, always my go-to for advice, especially regarding dogs.


35 posted on 02/23/2018 4:48:20 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Gasshog

Nipper was a mix terrier - closer to a Jack Russell than a pit bull.


36 posted on 02/23/2018 4:52:49 AM PST by corkoman
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To: corkoman

Yup that’s what they say. He had several owners but the last was the guy who painted HIS MASTERS VOICE.
Genius!


37 posted on 02/23/2018 5:00:18 AM PST by Gasshog ( Fight climate change - Try beating the air and scream at the sky)
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To: BBell

The dog in the pic looks like a Plott Hound to me. Just my $.02.


38 posted on 02/23/2018 5:04:14 AM PST by Afterguard (Deplorable me!)
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To: BBell

Pitbulls. The moslems of the canine world.


39 posted on 02/23/2018 5:04:29 AM PST by VietVet876
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To: BBell

A couple miles from me.......my back yard........


40 posted on 02/23/2018 5:31:16 AM PST by Arlis
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