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Nash, who required a face transplant following the 2009 rampage, says the state is liable for $150 million because it knew the chimp posed a threat. Connecticut lawmakers are considering a bill that would overturn a state commissioner’s ruling that denied Nash the right to sue. A Connecticut woman mauled by a pet chimpanzee in 2009 made a rare public apperance before politicians Friday, pleading for the right to sue the state for $150 million. Charla Nash, who is blind and underwent a complete face transplant following the gruesome rampage by Travis the chimp, points to a memo by the...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (May 25) -- A Connecticut woman whose chimpanzee mauled and blinded her friend last year has died, her attorney said Tuesday. Sandy Herold died Monday night of a ruptured aortic aneurysm, lawyer Robert Golger said. She was 72. Herold's 200-pound chimpanzee, Travis, went berserk in February 2009 after Herold asked her friend, Charla Nash, to help lure it back into her house in Stamford. The animal ripped off Nash's hands, nose, lips and eyelids before the animal was shot and killed by police.

After Attack GRAPHIC IMAGE! NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A Connecticut woman who was attacked by a 200-pound chimpanzee says she repeatedly warned the animal's owner that the primate was dangerous and could hurt someone. In a telephone interview Wednesday with The Associated Press, Charla Nash said she saw the chimpanzee throw large objects around his cage, flash his teeth and pound the bars so violently his hands would bleed and the cage had to be rewelded. Nash, who appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" Wednesday, said she told the owner, Sandra Herold, eight or 10 times he was dangerous.

Here is video of the Connecticut woman who was attacked by a chimpanzee revealing the extent of injury caused to her face by the chimp. She appeared on Oprah today, her first public appearance since the attack. The woman was trying to help her neighbor get the chimp back inside after it had escaped. Here is the 911 call of the neighbor earlier this year....(Oprah Video)

The chilling screams of a crazed chimp mauling a Connecticut woman were captured on a 911 tape - along with the animal's owner begging, "Send police with guns!" The 15-minute recording captures the bizarre horror of Monday's attack, which left a 55-year-old woman critically injured and the 200-pound ape dead in a hail of police gunfire. "Hurry, please! He ripped her face off," the ape's frantic owner, Sandy Herold, 70, is heard telling the dispatcher on the tapes released Tuesday night. "Listen to me, you have to shoot him."

Chimps tear off man's face From correspondents in Los Angeles March 5, 2005 A CALIFORNIA man's face was torn off in a savage attack by two huge chimpanzees while he was delivering a birthday cake to his former chimp pet of 30 years. The victim, St James Davis, 62, was in critical condition after suffering severe facial and bodily injuries, officials said today. He and his wife had been paying a visit to their old simian pal, Moe, when the attack happened. Mr Davis was attacked by two male chimpanzees who had escaped from a cage adjoining Moe's at the...