Posted by Samuel on Fri 01st Nov, 2019 - tori.ng
A mother of two children has been strangled to death by a huge python inside a house that was filled with snakes.
Hurst was found on the floor with an 8-foot recluse python loosely wrapped around her neck. (Picture: Facebook)
A mother was allegedly strangled to death by a massive eight-foot-python in a home filled with 140 snakes, police said.
Laura Hurst, 36, was found dead with the snake wrapped around her neck in the ‘reptile home’ in Battle Ground, Indiana on Wednesday night.
The home is reportedly owned by Benton County Sheriff Don Munson and is set up specifically for the snake collection.
According to a statement by Indiana State Police spokesman Sergeant Kim Riley, Hurst kept about 20 of her own snakes in the home and usually visited it twice a week.
Sheriff Munson lives next door the the reptile house and reportedly saw Hurst at the home on Wednesday evening.
Riley said a person found Hurst later that night on the floor with a reticulated python loosely wrapped around her neck.
The person, who was not named, was able to unwrap the python, but medics were unable to revive Hurst, Riley wrote.
‘She appears to have been strangled by the snake. We do no know that for a fact until after the autopsy,’ Riley told the Journal Courier.
Munson called Hurst’s death a ‘tragic accident with loss of human life,’ adding that he was ‘being fully cooperative with everybody.’
Authorities said they plan to conduct an autopsy on Friday.
Hurst’s Facebook page indicates that she was a mother of two. Her family told Metro US they did not want to comment on the incident.
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Source: Metro UK