In September 1992, the tranquility of the small town of Cleveland, Ohio, was shattered by a horrific murder. 28-year-old Angela"Dolly"Kaplan is attacked to death by her beloved pet dog, Mike. This bull terrier was originally Angela's faithful companion and often snuggled up to her on the couch, gently resting his big head on her lap. But on that unfortunate day, Mike becomes unusually ferocious and unleashes a deadly attack on Angela.
Angela's tragic death shocked the entire community, how could this usually docile bull terrier suddenly go berserk?Later investigation revealed that behind all this was the conspiracy of Angela's partner, Jeffrey Mann. Mann secretly trains Mike to use it as an assassination tool to avoid becoming the subject of an investigation.
That night, Mike, under Mann's instructions, launched a brutal attack on Angela, biting her 70 times. When police arrived at the scene, Angela showed no signs of life. At first, Mann seems to be able to escape the law, but a thorough investigation by a policewoman reveals the truth. She found that most of the wounds were concentrated on the inside of Angela's arm, indicating that Angela was attacked while touching Mike. Finally, in 1993, Mann was convicted of ** crimes.
This case became the world's first criminal case of using a dog as a tool. It has sparked a wide discussion about animals as potential. For example, in the United Kingdom and the United States, courts in some regions are starting to classify animals as potentially hazardous**.
Similar to this case, there was another case in South Stockwell, London in 2010. A hybrid bull terrier named Tyson was used for 16-year-old Sai Ogunyemi. DNA tests confirmed that the blood stains on Say's body came from Tyson. In the case, Tyson's owner, Christian Dean Johnson, stabbed him six more times after the dog overpowered him.
Johnson was tried in the old Bailey court and convicted of **. Judge Christopher Moss noted that Johnson used two lethal **s: a trained mixed-breed bull terrier and a knife used to assassinate Say. In the end, Johnson was sentenced to life in prison, which he would have to serve for at least 24 years. Tyson, on the other hand, was euthanized.
In human history, it is not uncommon for animal attacks to kill people, but cases of animals being used as tools are relatively rare, especially if animals are intentionally trained to kill. In contrast, the reliability of a deadly and venomous creature like a snake as a killer is even more questionable. This kind of scenario is common in movies, such as in the 007 series of movies "Life and Death", where the protagonist and his love clue Lyle (played by Jane Seymour) faced a similar threat. In Diamond, the bad guy Brofeld's henchmen even use scorpions to attack Dr. Thyssen. However, most creatures in reality prefer to avoid contact with humans, and even if a scorpion stings, it is usually not immediately fatal.
In real life, some killers have thought of using the deadly venom of snakes, especially rattlesnakes, to carry out seemingly accidental killings. In California in 1936, three months after Bob James married his wife Mary, he used two rattlesnakes** to conceive her. Prior to this, he had tried to bite Mary with a black widow spider, but it only caused her leg to swell, and Mary did not realize that it was her husband's doing. Subsequently, James purchased two diamond-backed rattlesnakes through a friend.
On that fateful day, he blindfolded Mary and tied her to a table, then pushed her legs into a box containing snakes. Mary was bitten three times by a snake, but she did not die immediately. To complete his criminal plan, James drowned her in a bathtub a few hours later and dumped her body in a pond in the garden.
Within days of the incident, James tried to claim Mary's life insurance. While investigating his past, it was discovered that his third wife also died "accidentally" in the bathtub. In addition, one of his nephews was also killed in a suspicious car accident. In both cases, James quickly filed insurance claims. At trial, two rattlesnakes were presented as evidence, and James was eventually sentenced to death and hanged.
There are many similar cases. In 1963, lawyer Paul Moranz was lucky enough to escape death during a courtroom confrontation. He was in court against a cult leader, who, out of revenge, placed a giant rattlesnake in his mailbox. Moranz was bitten by a snake when he opened his mailbox, but thanks to the timely assistance of his neighbors and the antitoxin ** from the hospital, he survived.
These events make us wonder when dogs, snakes, or other animals can become dangerous when the lines between humans and pets become blurredShould we enact stricter laws to prevent animals from being used as **?These are questions worth pondering.