Animal Loving Elderly Couple Eaten by Wild Dogs
First they came for the old lady. When the old man went looking for his missing wife, the wild dogs got him too.
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This story is macabre. Police came up with this lineup of suspects:
From the AP here:
A shredded piece of shirt, some strands of hair and bloodstained dirt are all that remain along the rural stretch of road where authorities believe a pack of wild dogs fatally mauled an elderly couple.
Sherry Schweder, a 65-year-old animal lover, was taking an evening stroll, perhaps looking for one of her own dogs that had been missing for about a month when she was attacked. Preliminary autopsy results showed she died from animal bites.
Her husband, Lothar Schweder, 77, a retired professor, had gone out in search of her in his car and came across his wife’s body. There were signs of a scuffle, several shoe prints and what appeared to be paw prints in the mud. He tried to pull out his cell phone before he succumbed to the attack, Madison County Coroner James Mathews said. Autopsy results show Lothar Schweder also died of injuries from multiple animal bites.
A group of Jehovah’s Witnesses walking in the same area discovered the bodies Saturday morning and called police. Four days later, a faint unpleasant smell still hung in the air.
It was the same group of medium-sized, mixed-breed dogs Sherry Schweder worried about, wondering if anyone was taking care of them as she saw them wander around.
The feral dogs didn’t belong to anyone. The dogs were aggressive toward authorities who rounded them up using traps and tranquilizers. At one point, a group of them cornered two people against a vehicle. By Tuesday evening, 11 dogs and 5 puppies had been taken to the Madison-Oglethorpe animal shelter, where the staff was beginning court-ordered euthanizations. The shelter has been asked to look for homes for the Schweders’ 20 cats and seven dogs.
Know why the Schweders were eaten? They stank of kitty odor! The author of the story wrote about how the attack scene smelled?? Dude!
