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A suspicious crime scene
A horrific scene that occurred in the United States more than twenty years ago is still mentioned in the United States whenever there is a debate about whether to keep a large dog.
In the early hours of September 2, 1998, more than an hour before dawn, a hospital in Ohio received a distress call.
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A man on the phone said: "The girlfriend was attacked by a wild dog while out for a walk, she crawled back on her own and is now seriously injured."
The doctor on duty vaguely felt that something was wrong, so he asked Officer Kevin to accompany him.
In the house of the man named Mann, a young girl was seen, according to Mann, who was his girlfriend Angela.
When the doctor stepped forward to check, he found that the woman was dead.
While the doctor was checking, Kevin was looking around the room.
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Unexpectedly, Kevin wasn't interested in the corpse and the blood stains all over the house, but pointed to a picture of a dog hanging on the wall and talked to Mann.
"Is this your dog?"
"Yes"
"Where is it now?"
"Upstairs."
Kevin followed Mann's gaze as he saw a staircase leading to the attic, which was still stained with undried blood.
Seeing this, Kevin quietly arranged for his assistant to take Mann to the hospital and treat the wound on his head.
Kevin then made a few phone calls, and he had too many doubts about the scene and needed someone to help him verify it.
The first to arrive on the scene were female detectives with 30 years of professional experience, Tarreno and her partner Detective Reese.
The two listened to Kevin's briefing and observed the scene.
They saw Angela lying on the sofa in the living room, covered in a white blanket covered in blood, and scattered around the sofa were women's intimate clothes and fragments of suspected clothing.
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Without exception, the clothes were stained with blood, even on the boots next to them.
Lifting the blanket on Angela's body, several people saw that there were many bite marks and scratches on the deceased's body, and his arms had almost been torn to pieces.
The scene seemed to fit mann's words: "The girlfriend was bitten by a wild dog and crawled back on her own." ”
But it was Mann's words that made the police suspicious.
A terrifying hybrid dog
Because Kevin and the two detectives saw a lot of blood in the house, some extending to the bedroom, some extending to the kitchen, and some extending to the attic, but the door did not.
If Angela had crawled back after being bitten by a dog, there must have been blood in the aisle at the door, but now there was no trace of it, and Mann was clearly lying.
Another suspicious point is that Angela's body is naked, which is obviously unreasonable, even if Mann wants to check for his girlfriend's injuries, there is no need to take off all her clothes.
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There is also a suspicious point, the forensic doctor speculated that Angela died of excessive blood loss, but there was no large amount of blood around the living room, and it is clear that whether Angela died under the mouth of a wild dog or died of murder, the living room was not the first scene.
Soon Tarreno found the first scene, a locked room extending with obvious blood, and then she found an entrance in another part of the room, pushed open the door, and Tarreno, who boasted that she had seen countless big scenes, was also stunned by the sight in front of her.
There is a large bed in the center of the room, the sheets and covers are soaked with blood, and the scene is unspeakably strange and terrifying.
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Detective Reese also found it in the attic, and followed the blood trail to the door of one of the attic rooms, and he cautiously opened the door, when suddenly a large dog rushed at him viciously, and there was a constant purring sound in his throat.
Detective Reese's eyes were fast, and he immediately closed the door.
Just then, Kevin's other helper arrived, a professional dog catcher who went up to the attic with the dog catcher, but soon he also came down. Because the dog is so big, he needs help.
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With the cooperation of Reese and the dog catcher, he finally struggled to subdue the hybrid dog. At this time, everyone saw the full picture of this hybrid dog, which was half a person tall, close to 40 kilograms, and this weight was close to the weight of some adult women.
In the course of the uniform, Reese clearly saw that there was blood flowing from the dog's mouth.
From all the circumstances, Angela was not killed by a wild dog bite at all, most likely by Mann's dog bite, and whether she attacked actively or was directed by Mann remains to be investigated.
The police then investigated and questioned Mann.
Good dog bad owner?
Mann claimed that he and his girlfriend had a party that night, which went very late, and when he got home, he was feeling a little unwell and took a little medicine, which had a hypnotic effect, so he fell asleep quickly.
In the middle of the night, Angela came back from a walk outside, jumped on the bed to wake him up, and told him that he had been bitten by a dog, and then he helped Angela to the sofa in the living room to check her for her injuries.
This clumsy statement seemed flawed to Detective Tarrenno, who immediately questioned Mann's statement: "I don't believe angela was asleep when angela was attacked." ”
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In the face of the police's questioning, Mann was a little discouraged, and his answer was quite a bit of a silverless three hundred and two: "You suspect that Mark did it?" "Mark is exactly the name of that large hybrid dog.
"Why are you excusing your dog?" Detective Tarreno continued to question.
It seems that the police's suspicion of the dog makes Mann very embarrassed and angry, and what makes the police even more confused is that Mann does not seem to care too much about his girlfriend, but cares about his dog very much.
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Soon, the results of the forensic autopsy on Angela also came out, and she did die of excessive blood loss, with more than a hundred wounds on her body.
In addition, the forensic doctor also found that there were residues of drugs such as tranquilizers in Angela's stomach, but the dose was very small.
That is to say, Angela was awake when she was attacked by a hybrid dog, but because of the drug, she had no strength.
In other words: Angela watched as the hybrid dog tore at herself, but didn't have the strength to resist.
Such a conclusion made Tarino and others shudder, if this is the case, then Angela's death before the attack, but "torture", the torture of him is his boyfriend.
To verify whether the hybrid dog attacked on his own initiative or was directed by Mann, Tarino visited many professionals.
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The veterinarian at the kennel said to Tarreno: "Mark is a good dog, he is not a murderer. ”
Seeing Tarreno's puzzled look, the veterinarian explained: "Mark is a docile dog who does not actively attack humans, and when I treated him, he was very docile. ”
The veterinarian's claims are also supported by multiple animal experts.
But that wasn't enough, and Tarino found an expert who specialized in dog attacks.
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Here Tarreno learned that in the past few years, there have been many incidents of dog bites and deaths in the United States, but these incidents have one thing in common - the victims have only one wound on their bodies.
And this wound is often in the throat or skull and other key areas.
A case like the one in which the dog hit the attacking arm has never occurred, and there is only one explanation for this: the dog's aggressive behavior was directed.
On April 21, 1999, the court formally accepted the world's first case of being charged with dogs as weapons of murder.
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However, many members of the police community are generally not optimistic about the outcome of the case because of the lack of key evidence.
The outcome of the trial was humiliating
In order to be able to expose Mann's lies, give Angela an explanation, and in order to save the "good dog" Mark from injustice, Tarreno is still running around.
First, with the help of a dentist, she managed to get angela's teeth marks and Mark's bite marks, and after comparison, the marks of the two were exactly the same.
But that didn't get Tareño too excited, after all, the "murderer" Mark was expected.
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It now needs to be proven that Mark was instructed by Mann to attack Angela, causing Angela's death.
There happened to be a seminar in California about dog aggression, and Tarreno traveled to California hoping to gain something.
Here they visited a dog breeding expert, and when they met, Tareanor asked straight away, "If Mark usually likes Angela very much, why would he attack her and bite her to death?" ”
Experts explain: "A dog is not like a person, it does not have a concept of right and wrong. The dog's behavior is controlled by the 'head dog', and this 'head dog' can also be a person. ”
Afraid that Tarino would not understand, the expert made a special demonstration: he issued an order to his Labrador dog "Catch him!" The dog quickly bit the expert's son's arm and waited for the next order.
No doubt if the expert orders the Labrador to "bite him!" The dog will definitely bite off the child's arm, and even if it is a small owner who grew up with him, he will not hesitate. Because it only obeys the command of the "head dog".
The expert also speculated that the hybrid dog Mark must have received professional aggression training. To this end, he also did a special experiment to verify.
During the first contact between the dog expert and Mark, Mark appeared very friendly and showed no signs of attacking anyone.
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But when the dog training expert put on the long sleeves used for dog training, Mark immediately changed, his eyes fixed on the sleeves, as if waiting for orders.
As the dog expert waved his long sleeve, Mark suddenly rushed up and bit the sleeve, but only bit it, did not bite it, and did not make any further attacks.
Tarreno was stunned by this scene, and the expert explained to her his conclusion: Mark must have been professionally trained in attack, he would not take the initiative to attack people, but he would attack people under the orders of the "head dog", but no one knew what the attack instructions that Mann "set" for Mark were.
On November 23, 1999, the case was resolved, and unfortunately, although the police believed that Mann had instructed Mark to bite Angela to death, there was no substantial evidence to confirm their suspicions.
In the end, Mann was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment for the deliberate act of allowing the victim to die.
After the case, many people expressed sympathy for Angela, while others expressed a desire to adopt Mark.
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But they were all rejected by the police, and the explanation given by the police was reasonable: no one knew what Mark's attack instructions were, and perhaps people would launch an order with an unintentional action, causing Mark to attack humans, and a 40-kilogram dog attacked humans, and the consequences were unimaginable.
The only thing that saved Mark's life was mann volunteering to say what Mark's attack instructions were.
But once Mann gave the order, it was equivalent to indirectly admitting that he had instructed Mark to bite Angela, so Mann would rather watch his loyal dog die than give the command.
The day after Mann was declared guilty, the good dog that the people called it, the horse, overcame poison.
Mark is indeed a good dog, loyal and docile, but he encounters a bad master who makes Mark a substitute ghost in order to save himself.
Although the dust of the case has settled, Tarino feels very depressed, for himself, for the dead Angela.
It is a pity to know that Mann is the "demon" who instructed Mark to torture Angela to death, but he cannot get her due punishment.
Resources:
The world's first dog training murder case was solved- "Green World", No. 02, 2002