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preface
In 1998, in ohio, usa, a bizarre case occurred in which the mistress of a family was tortured to death by her pet dog.
What is even more strange is that when the police arrived at the scene, the woman was naked, surrounded by blood!
Subsequently, the police launched an investigation into the matter, but in our impression, the pet dog did not fight back and scolded.
But why was this woman tortured to death by her own dog? What exactly did she do?
Large dogs
I. The Ohio Homicide
In 1998, the parachute doctor's headquarters in Ohio received a distress call in the early hours of the morning.
On the other end of the phone, a man with a trembling voice said that his girlfriend had been bitten by a wild dog while running at night, and now that her life was in danger, ask the doctor to come and save her life.
The doctor on duty knew that the situation was urgent, hurried to ask for their location, and then quickly dispatched an ambulance to the location to rescue them.
American ambulance
At the same time, the Ohio city police department also received a report from the man, and after the operator learned the basic situation, he immediately contacted the local police station and sent The on-duty police officer Kevin to the scene to investigate.
The ambulance arrived first, and when the doctor was ushered into the room by the man, he found the man's girlfriend lying on the sofa in the living room, covered with a white blanket that had been stained red with blood.
The sofa was surrounded by scattered blood and broken clothes, and the scene was terrifying, but the doctor was also experienced in a hundred battles, and after stabilizing his mind, he opened the first aid kit and prepared to rescue.
However, what puzzled the doctor was that the woman's body was completely naked except for the blanket stained red with blood, but there was no time to think about the reason, the time was not waiting for anyone, and he had to rescue him immediately.
At this time, the police officer Kevin also arrived at the scene, saw the doctor giving first aid to the woman, and conducted a preliminary investigation of the scene next to him.
While inspecting the room, Kevin noticed a strange phenomenon, the woman's blood was scattered in the house, but there was no blood in the hallway of the door, which was obviously different from the man's description of the situation in the police call.
If the woman was attacked by a wild dog while running out at night and then fled home, there should have been blood stains at the doorways and corridors, not only in the house as it is now.
Meanwhile, the woman is naked, which catches Kevin's attention. Kevin was puzzled in his heart, although the woman's outer clothes were torn, but the underwear was kept intact and did not fall off, and should be taken off by the man.
But even if you need to take off your clothes for first aid, there is no need to be naked.
Vicious stray dogs
At first he thought it was just a simple wild dog injury, but the situation at the scene made Kevin think that the case was not simple, so he contacted two other colleagues by phone.
At this time, the doctor also ended the first aid, shook his head and said that the person was no longer able to do it.
The man who called the police staggered to his feet, and finally covered his face and cried.
Seeing this, the doctor could only simply comfort him with mourning and obedience, sighed and left.
The forensic doctor then took the woman's body back to the police station for further examination.
When the man's mood stabilized a little, police officer Kevin began to question him, wanting to know some basic information.
The man who called the police was Jeffrey Mann, and the woman who had died was his girlfriend, Angela Kaplan.
According to Jeffrey's account, he and his girlfriend went to a friend's dance party that night and had a great time. When he got home, Jeffrey felt a pain in his back, thinking that he might have used too much force while dancing and strained the muscles in his back.
So he took a pain relief pill, and under the effect of the medicine, he was a little drowsy, so he went back to the bedroom and fell into a deep sleep.
I don't know how long later, confused, he was woken up by Angela, half asleep and half awake, he heard the girlfriend's cry for help outside the room!
This made Jeffrey wake up immediately and hurry up to find his girlfriend, but when he came to his girlfriend, he found that she was covered in injuries and surrounded by blood.
Seeing that the situation was too serious, Jeffrey called the police for first aid. After that, he helped his girlfriend to the living room sofa and did a simple treatment.
Kevin, who had a preliminary understanding of what had passed, pondered for a while, and looked up to notice a picture frame on the wall, and in the photo was a majestic hybrid dog, nestled in the arms of Jeffrey and Angela, and the picture was very harmonious.
Kevin then asked, "Is that your dog?" ”
Jeffrey replied, "Yes, this is my dog, his name is Mark."
Kevin asked again, "What about dogs?" Where are you now? ”
Jeffrey replied that the dog was upstairs now.
Keenly aware that the domestic hybrid could be a major suspect, Kevin contacted the local department in charge of dog arrest and asked them to send a professional to assist in the work.
After arranging things, Kevin carefully noticed a scratch on Jeffrey's forehead and was bleeding, so he asked Jeffrey what was going on.
Jeffrey said the injury was scratched by accidentally breaking the teacup while caring for his girlfriend and the fragments bounced up.
Kevin glanced around the couch, and there were indeed fragments of teacups on the floor.
He felt that the incident was a bit strange and that the domestic dog must be investigated, but Kevin felt that Jeffrey's presence might hinder the investigation and must find a reason to take him away.
So Kevin arranged for other auxiliary police officers to take Jeffrey to the hospital for treatment, Jeffrey was very reluctant, but had no choice but to tell Kevin "Don't hurt my dog" before leaving.
After saying this, Jeffrey left, and Kevin felt very wrong in his heart, and the suspicion in his heart deepened a little.
The difference between Jeffrey's attitude toward his girlfriend and the dog is too obvious, and he cares more about the dog than the girlfriend.
And Kevin felt that Jeffrey's words had a big loophole, was he hiding the truth of the matter?
Shortly after Jeffrey left, two colleagues Kevin contacted came over, namely Tareanor and Reese, both of whom were colleagues in charge of the direction of criminal investigation and had extensive experience in criminal investigation.
Tareanor and Kevin briefly exchanged views and formally took over the case.
She first carefully observed the scene, and agreed with Kevin's initial view that if Angela had returned home after being injured outside, there would have been blood in the corridor from the door to the living room.
But in fact, the floor and surrounding furniture there were clean and no blood was found, which indicates that the deceased was injured in his home!
So why did Jeffrey lie that his girlfriend was injured outside? What is he hiding?
Tarreno also noticed a drag-formed blood mark next to the sofa, followed the direction to the door of one of the rooms inside, pushed the door, and found that the door was locked.
Tarreno instinctively felt that there was a hidden truth in this room, so he went around the house to find another door to the room, and it did not take much effort to find the other door.
The door was unlocked, she opened it with a gentle push, and the scene in the room was shocking, and Rao Wastaliano, who had decades of experience in criminal investigation, was also startled.
There was a lot of blood in the room, as if it were a slaughterhouse, and the whole bed was stained red with blood.
It turns out that this is the first scene of the incident!
Another Detective Rees was not idle, he went to the second floor to search based on the blood at the scene, he slowly pushed open the door of a room, suddenly found a hybrid dog flying up, fortunately Reese reacted quickly and closed the door.
The dogs in the room couldn't stop barking, and even slammed the door one after another, and the fierce barking made everyone in the room tremble with fear.
Just then, the dog-catching professional Kevin contacted arrived, and he brought a condom and protective gear for the whole day that was specially used to catch dogs.
However, the big dog in the angry state is too aggressive, and the dog catcher can't stop the lack of heart, and one person can't stop the vicious dog, so the dog catcher asks Detective Rees to enter the room together to assist in the arrest.
Detective Rees laughed bitterly, there was no way, he couldn't let Tarino, the female detective, deal with this kind of large dog, which said that his face would be lost, and he could only harden his scalp.
Detective Reese entered the room with trepidation, and the big dog barked wildly at them again, but fortunately, the dog grabber's eyes were fast, and he hit the dog's neck, and the two of them worked together to subdue the large hybrid dog, which was forty kilograms long.
The staff then took the large dog back to their department and had it examined by a dedicated veterinarian.
The investigation of the case has been carried out so far, and there are many doubts, and all the evidence points to this large domestic dog, Mark, but in the photo, Mark and the hostess are also very close.
So what exactly caused Mark to attack the hostess?
2. Investigation process
In order to find out the truth as soon as possible, Tarino returned to the police station and escorted Jeffrey, who had just returned from the hospital, to the interrogation room.
In the face of the detective's cross-examination, Jeffrey's description is no different from what he said to Kevin before, but the clues at the scene clearly prove that he is lying, and until now Jeffrey has tried to cover up the truth.
Tarreno questioned without hesitation: "I don't believe the claim that you were still sleeping when Angela was killed."
In the face of the officer's questioning, Jeffrey looked angry and subconsciously said, "So you think my dog bit Angela to death?" ”
This knee-jerk reply is clearly self-confessing, and it also makes Tarino trust his judgment even more.
Interrogation room
Tareanor continued to ask, "Why do you always want to excuse your dog?" ”
Realizing that he had said the wrong thing, Jeffrey suddenly became silent, and with a rogue attitude, he said slyly: "You have no evidence to accuse me."
Tarreno knew that Jeffrey was right, and the current evidence only proved that the dog attacked Angela to death, and there was no direct evidence that the dog attack was related to Jeffrey.
Seeing that the interrogation was inconclusive, Tarino sneered at Jeffrey, but to no avail.
Suffering from the lack of evidence, Jeffrey was released by the police as soon as the time of detention arrived, but Tarino knew that the truth was inseparable from Jeffrey, so he contacted yesterday's veterinarian to learn more about the situation.
Arriving at the veterinarian's workplace, Tarreno took a piece of raw beef for Mark to take a bite on, and then handed the piece of horse meat to the forensic doctor, who compared the bite marks.
It turns out that Angela was indeed bitten by Mark, which is evidence of a dog injury.
But in the photo, Mark and Angela are close, what happened to make Mark attack his hostess?
At this point, the veterinarian said to Tarreno that Mark was definitely not the murderer! Why?
The veterinarian explained that Mark was not the aggressive dog, but on the contrary, he had a docile personality, and when he was treated, he was very cooperative with the veterinarian's treatment, and the real murderer should be someone else.
This made Tarino wonder very much, obviously so aggressive before, how could he be docile?
The veterinarian explained that it may have been instructed to put the dog into an aggressive state, in which case the dog's mood would become very unstable.
Tarreno contacted an expert on animal behavior and asked about it, and the response was consistent with that of the veterinarian, mark is indeed a docile dog who does not attack people for no reason.
Experts explain that dogs, such as canines and cats, have always pursued a single blow to kill people, and as many as a hundred wounds on the body of the deceased, it is very likely that they will be ordered to attack.
Although this reason explains that dogs attack at the behest of orders, does this command imposed on dogs cause dogs to attack even those closest to them?
Confused, Tarreno contacted a senior who specialized in training police dogs.
Tareanor asked incomprehensibly, "If Angela usually has a good relationship with the dog, then why does the dog still bite her?" ”
The senior explained: "Because dogs are not human beings and have no basic concept of right and wrong, they are more like wolves, only obeying the orders of the head wolf." ”
"If the head wolf ordered it to attack Angela, even if it was close to Angela, it would still do as ordered, and Jeffrey might be the head wolf."
Listening to the explanation of the senior, Tarino suddenly realized, invited the senior to go with him to see the dog, hoping that the senior could help her test whether Mark was trained.
The senior happily agreed to Tarino's request, and he was also very interested in the case, so he decided to help her find evidence together.
In front of his predecessors, Mark behaved very docilely and was not afraid of people. But when the seniors put on the sleeves used to train police dogs, Mark's eyes changed and his limbs tensed.
When the seniors used their sleeves to wave their provocations, Mark flew out in an instant, biting the sleeves deadly, and the fierce look startled Tarreno.
After the seniors had calmed Mark's mood, Tareanor dared to come forward and talk.
The senior told Tarreno that the results could not have been more obvious now, that Mark had indeed been trained, and that although he was docile, he was unusually fierce in his command-giving state.
I just don't know what Mark's next instructions are, and the seniors have no clue for a while, so there is no way to continue to command.
Tarreno then received an autopsy report from the forensic doctor, which showed that Angela had taken marijuana and tranquilizers before her death, and that the dosage was very accurate.
At this dose, Angela, although clear-headed, is weak in the state of anesthesia. This means that Angela is conscious when she is bitten by a dog, but she cannot resist.
How desperate!
Until now, Tarino finally had enough evidence that she was going to sue Jeffrey and make this demon pay the price!
Jeffrey also found a defense lawyer, so what was the final result of the trial?
United States Courts
3. Final Judgment
In April 1999, Tarreno formally filed charges against Jeffrey, but at the time, the idea of using dogs as murder weapons was so bizarre that Tarreno's colleagues sweated for her.
Jeffrey's lawyer repeatedly argues that Angela attacked Jeffrey's head first, and Mark chose to attack Angela out of instinct.
Tarreno then issued an autopsy report, which showed that Angela was under anesthesia before her death and could not have injured anyone.
In addition, the previously recorded video of Mark was played in court, in which Mark watched the fight scene without any obvious change, and when the picture began to appear on the dog training sleeve, Mark was obviously full of aggression.
This video perfectly supports Mark's claim that he is trained to be an attack dog, that Mark himself does not have a clear tendency to attack because of fighting, and jeffrey and the lawyer's sophistry is refuted again and again.
However, Jeffrey refused to admit that he ordered Mark to bite Angela to death, and Tareanor had no direct evidence to prove it, so the prosecution of Jeffrey for intentional injury was ultimately invalid.
However, the court found that Jeffrey Mann did not send Angela to the hospital in time, but deliberately allowed her to die, a fault that confirmed the guilt.
Eventually, Jeffrey Mann was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a court.
Tareanor worked hard to investigate for so long, but finally got such a result, unable to sit on Jeffrey's accusations, can not help but be sad.
End
Jeffrey Mann was punished, but his dog Mark had nowhere to go.
The case attracted a lot of attention at the time, and many people expressed their willingness to adopt Mark, after all, the fault of the case was Jeffrey, and the dog was just a tool he used.
But the applications were rejected for simple reasons, because Mark was a trained dog, but no one but Jeffrey knew what Mark's attack instructions were.
Jeffrey refused to admit that he had instructed Mark to attack, so what the attack instructions were was unknown. In this way, if Mark is adopted, it is inevitable that there will be no special circumstances.
To be on the safe side, Mark was eventually euthanized by Tarino and Reese. This result eventually left many people feeling sorry.
Tarreno herself felt sad that mark was just a tool to be used by bad people.
Because of Jeffrey's deliberate concealment, the cause and motive of this case have also become an unsolved mystery. What exactly is the conflict between him and his girlfriend that he wants to retaliate in such a cruel way?
These answers may remain hidden.
In fact, an item, whether good or bad, depends on the person using it.
It is recorded in Mencius, "What is different from stabbing people and killing them, that is, 'Not me, but also soldiers'"
How can the master's fault be blamed on the "tool"?
Zhang Sanfeng also once said that the word good and evil are difficult to distinguish, and if a decent disciple is not right in his heart, he is an evil disciple; If a person in an evil sect is devoted to goodness, he is also a righteous gentleman.
I hope that more people will use their minds on the right path, then this is a "sharp weapon" for the country and the people.