Top 10 Crimes Solved By Animals
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Animals are so much more than just pets, as you will see from this list!
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10 - Bird the Cockatoo A bird, imaginatively called Bird, provided
vital DNA evidence in his owner's murder trial.
Texas native Kevin Butler's home was broken into on Christmas Eve in 2001 and he was killed
by the intruders.
His loyal bird flew at and pecked intruders, and was sadly killed too.
However, in pecking Daniel Torres, bird captured a chunk of his DNA in his beak.
When police officers investigated the murder scene, they found the crucial evidence to
link the crime to the killer, and his accomplice.
9- Two Cats 19 – year old Lori Auker disappeared in
May 1989 and her body was found on a dirt track in Pennsylvania after a three week search.
Initially her ex husband, Robert was investigated.
He was a very fishy character who cleaned and sold his car after the murder.
In the end, the was linked to the crime by cat hairs found on his clothes, two cats that
just so happened to belong to his ex wife, Lori.
Robert was convicted and sentenced to death in 1992.
8 - Real Life Scooby Doo In Scooby Doo, the Scooby gang tend to solve
mysteries and crimes.
Scooby appeared as a witness in a 2008 murder trial in France.
Scooby was thought to have been in the in the Parisian home of his owner when she was
found hanging from the ceiling.
Police initially thought the death was suicide but her family insisted it was murder.
Scooby barked furiously when the suspect in the case was brought forward at trial.
7 - Bud the Parrot Parrots know things… but more importantly,
they say things!
Bud the African grey was instrumental in solving a murder case.
It seems bud bore witness to the killing of Martin Duram and when police went to the house
to investigate, Bud kept repeating Don't Shoot in the victim's voice.
As eyes turned towards his wife, Glenna, she said he must have been repeating a conversation
with her husbands killer.
Things got more awkward when Bud started repeating lines from an argument Glenna and Martin had
had, making it clear that the killer was indeed his wife.
6 - It's not all death and gloom here, this Dog found the most important cup in football,
Coming in to number ** we have the Dog who saved the World Cup.
What is the world cup tournament without the world cup.
Nothing, right?
Meet Pickles the collie.
Pickles is an important figure in the history of English football.
In 1966, the year England hosted and won the world cup tournament, the trophy was stolen
in London.
When out on a walk with his owner, Pickles the dog sniffed out the cup in a hedge in
South London.
The Trophy was then returned, and when England won, Pickles was invited to a celebration
banquet and his owner, David Corbett, was awarded 5 thousand pounds, which was enough
to buy a house back then.
Triggered millennial coming at you!
Pickles then went on to star in the film The Star With a Cold Nose.
Sadly he died a year later chasing a cat...however his memory lives on.
AS we are mid list, I thought I would bring you something a bit different for number 5
– we have the cat who was summoned for Jury duty.
You may know that if you are summoned for Jury duty, it is really hard to get out of
it!
Well… it turns out, you scan still be summoned even if you aren't human…just ask Sal
Esposito, a house cat from Boston.
Sal received a letter in the mail saying that he had to go to court, even though his owner
wrote a letter to say he is a cat.
None the less, he was told he is not exempt.
It all happened as a mix up with a census, where she had listed the animal in the pet
section.
4 - Severed Grasshopper leg solved crime In 1985, a woman was found murdered and there
was little evidence left at the scene…except, a mangled grasshopper found in her clothing.
The Insect was almost totally ignored, until a suspect was taken in for questioning and
forensics found a bug leg on his trousers.
The bug leg matched up perfectly to the insect found in her clothing and was a vital piece
of evidence when convicting the man of the murder.
That isn't the only case of insect evidence!
We have regional dead bugs in Bakersfield at number 3
So, in 2003, a guy from Ohio rented a car, drove to California, killed his family and
then drove back.
The defendant in question said he had never left Ohio… but what he didn't realise
is that bugs would serve as key evidence.
What gave him away is that his car radiator and filter was splattered with insects west
of the rockies.
Again, a grasshopper was the decider – a Red Shanked grasshopper was discovered and
these are not found any further east than Kansas.
Also, a bright bug native only to Arizona, Utah and Southern California was found.
Uh oh.
Didn't think to wash away the evidence in the car radiator, did you son!
This dog sniffed at millions of euros worth of drugs up next at number 2
As you probably know, dogs solving crimes is nothing new, in fact, some dogs are specially
trained to solve crimes, which is why they have been working with police officers for
over a century.
Recently, a police sniffer dog called Holly sniffed out 2.4 million euros worth of cannabis
hidden in crates at Dublin Airport.
The incident happened on 27th September 2017, where Holly found 376 kilograms of Cannabis
resin and just under 10 kilos of herbal cannabis.
Holly was responsible for the arrest of a Northern Irish man who was smuggling the drugs.
Finally….We have a Shark who vomited up an arm at number 1
In 1935, a Tiger Shark in Sydney Australia was caught 3 kilometres off a beach and taken
to an Aquarium.
Within one week, the fish got sick in front of a crowd of people and vomited up human
arm with a very distinctive tattoo.
The plot thickens as it seems, before it was captured, the shark had eaten a smaller shark,
which had eaten the arm.
Right.
So anyway, finger prints identified the man as James Smith who had been missing for coming
on three weeks.
Then came out that arm had been cut from a body.
Eventually the investigation led back to a Sydney businessman, Reginald Holmes, who ran
a boat building business.
Long story short, he and Smith were into dodgy dealings and it had led to a third party,
by the name of Patrick Brady, getting involved in the business, killing smith and blackmailing
Holmes with the body.
His body was cut up, fed to the sharks… and in a crazy turn of coincidence that very
shark was taken in by the aquarium.
Woah.
So that was the Top 10 Crimes Solved by animals….I feel like if you were ever planning on trying
to get away with murder, you should chill out and stop this madness….
As we know from this list, something as simple as a cat hair or a grass hopper leg can link
you straight on back
to the crime.
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