As the Journal & Courier reports, Benton County Sheriff Don Munson owns the home but doesn't actually live there. He's apparently a snake enthusiast and was (or perhaps still is) a snake breeder who sells the animals. Hurst is reported to have owned some of the snakes in the house, and Munson lives right next door.
When Hurst's body was found, a large python was loosely curled around her neck, so it would seem likely that the animal was responsible for the woman's death, but state police aren't making any assumptions. It's not immediately clear who actually found the woman's body, but police said that the individual unwrapped the snake from her neck. Attempts to revive her were unsuccessful. A full autopsy will be conducted to determine the true cause of death.
Meanwhile, Munson says he's cooperating with the investigation but didn't give reporters any additional details about the snakes or the home beyond the fact that he is the owner and lives next door. The home itself is an unassuming single-story structure, and you'd really never know that it was packed with snakes without stepping inside.
Hurst was reportedly a snake enthusiast, and if she kept snakes at the house owned by Munson it wouldn't be odd that she was there. Pythons are large and powerful creatures, and this wouldn't be the first time that a snake such as this turned on its handler.
Who found her & how she was found is unclear??? WTF?
The sheriff lived next door? WTF?
Anyone who knows their snakes KNOWS to NOT let the Pythons, cobras, vipers, et al., have free reign of the house.
Countless options:
She - the strangled one- was having an affair with the sheriff, and got jealous of his wife? Hookers? Got mad because he gave her syphillis? The options are so many with such a vague BS Fishy as hell ‘story.”
Here's one shot in the dark:
Likely in the ensuing argument, she threatened to publically reveal originals of there home cell phone videos of ‘sex with snakes’ involved.
He got pissed and strangled her - then he ‘loosely coiled the snake around the lady’s neck. There’s something seriously wrong with the above. It’s clearly not the full story as likely known to the sheriff and his buddies.
Who found her & how she was found is unclear??? wtf?
Sheriff lived next door?
One who knows their snakes KNOWS to NOT let the Pythons, cobras, vipers, et al., have free reign of the house.
Countless options:
She - the strangled* one - was having an affair with the sheriff, and got jealous of his wife? Hookers? Got mad because he gave her syphillis? The options are so many with such a vague bs. Fishy as hell ‘story.”
Likely she threatened to show their cell phone videos of ‘sex with snakes’ involved.
He got pissed and strangled her - then he ‘loosely coiled the snake around the lady’s neck.
This whole story reads (and smells) so “fishy” to me that it’s giving me bad flashbacks to where I was ‘attacked’ by a 14-16 ft. Hammerhead and had the death scared out of me. (It’s in the comments - with some impeccable wit in a colloquy between Baron and HFL, and even more particularly, HFL’s linked video - I got a side stitch from laughing so hard for the entire clip.)
So, have a read, and tell me whatcha think. (It’s a 100% true event, and I guarantee lots of other surfers who were there that day, (and now about ages 52 - 70?) still tell their part in that same story to this day. It WAS a once in a lifetime thing where a shark got EVERYONE out of the water..
3 shark attacks at the same Florida beach within 24 hours
Three people were bitten by a shark within a 24-hour span at a Florida beach on Sunday. It happened at New Smyrna Beach. The community is known as the "shark bite capital of the world." A...Thanks.
R.C.
* Contra, asphyxiated' which would be the M.O./Typical result of a python as they entwine your whole body, (not just one's neck) and just like all good crocs and gators, if in the water it will then drag you down to drown. (I believe.)
RC