11-26-2019, 04:49 PM
The information being reported doesn't sit right with me. It very well may be 100% accurate, but I sort of doubt it. Feral hogs typically do not just attack people. I saw pics of the house where the incident happened and the distance from where she apparently parked and to the door wasn't far. I can't imagine that she drove up and failed to see a sounder of hogs in the yard or that the hogs remained in place when she drove up that close. Reports I have seen said that she had a severe head wound and that she bled out from animal bites, that the ME described as "exsanguination from feral hog assault."
There are no reported witnesses to the event so that the determination would be due to forensics. I am very curious as to what the evidence is that tied the assault to a hog or hogs. That would be exceptionally fast work for a saliva analysis. I would be hugely surprised if the Chambers County ME is familiar with the bite pattern of hogs versus the bite pattern of other types of animals. Looking at the few photos available online, I don't see any direct evidence of hogs such as rooting or scat. There could be footprints, of course, that would not show up in the images.
If it was hogs, did they attack her and bring her down, or did she fall and hit her head and later some hogs found her and tried eating her?
Another place I read where there are only 4 know feral hog-caused deaths in the US. So this would be exceptionally unusual. Generally, the only people ever harmed by feral hogs are people trying to harm or handle feral hogs and get harmed when going hands-on, such as with trappers or hog doggers.
There are no reported witnesses to the event so that the determination would be due to forensics. I am very curious as to what the evidence is that tied the assault to a hog or hogs. That would be exceptionally fast work for a saliva analysis. I would be hugely surprised if the Chambers County ME is familiar with the bite pattern of hogs versus the bite pattern of other types of animals. Looking at the few photos available online, I don't see any direct evidence of hogs such as rooting or scat. There could be footprints, of course, that would not show up in the images.
If it was hogs, did they attack her and bring her down, or did she fall and hit her head and later some hogs found her and tried eating her?
Another place I read where there are only 4 know feral hog-caused deaths in the US. So this would be exceptionally unusual. Generally, the only people ever harmed by feral hogs are people trying to harm or handle feral hogs and get harmed when going hands-on, such as with trappers or hog doggers.
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