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Title: Elderly Couple Mauled to Death by pack of Dogs on rural road.
Post by: jimmy olsen on August 17, 2009, 09:13:29 PM
What a horrible way to die. :(

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32451471/ns/us_news-life/

QuoteDog pack likely killed Georgia couple
Remains of college professor and wife discovered mutilated on a rural road

updated 5:43 p.m. ET, Mon., Aug 17, 2009

ATLANTA - A former college professor and his wife were apparently attacked and killed by nearly a dozen dogs along a rural northeast Georgia road where their bodies were found mutilated, authorities said Monday.

Preliminary autopsy results from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation showed Sherry Schweder, 65, likely died of injuries suffered in a dog attack, Oglethorpe County Sheriff Mike Smith said. Autopsy results for her husband, Lothar Karl Schweder, 77, were not yet available, but Smith said it's likely he was also attacked by dogs because the scene was so grisly.

Smith said officials were going to round up at least 11 dogs seen in the area where the couple's mutilated bodies were found Saturday morning by five passers-by.

It wasn't immediately clear whether the mixed-breed dogs, which are to be captured by animal control officers from neighboring Madison County, were feral or someone's pets. There had been no recent complaints about vicious dogs in the area, Smith said.

The bodies were found along a dirt road near the couple's home in Lexington and had been there for at least 24 hours, said county coroner James Mathews.

'One of my favorite colleagues'
A family friend told the Athens Banner-Herald that Lothar Karl Schweder was a retired professor who had taught German at the University of Georgia, which is about 20 miles away in Athens.

UGA German Department head Martin Kagel said he didn't know Lothar Karl Schweder and that no one currently with the department knew him. However, he said it might be possible Schweder worked there part time at some point or worked there more than 20 years ago.

Sherry Schweder was a bibliographer at the university's library, where she had worked since 1974 selecting books and journals for the school's humanities collection, said university librarian William Potter.

Nan McMurry, who was Sherry Schweder's supervisor and had worked with her for about 20 years, said she was stunned.

"She was one of my favorite colleagues here," McMurry said. "She was really a kind of quiet and self-effacing person, but she was one of the most intelligent and most well-educated people here."

Wife loved animals
McMurry said Sherry Schweder had many dogs and cats, though authorities don't think her own dogs attacked her.

York Schweder, one of the couple's two sons, had left for Georgia after hearing about his parents' death, said his mother-in-law, Toni Mora, who answered the phone at his home in Hutchinson, Kan. York Schweder did not immediately return a message left Monday on his cell phone.

A message left at a number listed for the couple's other son, who lives in Aiken, S.C., was not immediately returned.
Title: Re: Elderly Couple Mauled to Death by pack of Dogs on rural road.
Post by: Jaron on August 17, 2009, 09:18:07 PM
That man liked himself some young meat.
Title: Re: Elderly Couple Mauled to Death by pack of Dogs on rural road.
Post by: jimmy olsen on August 17, 2009, 09:23:44 PM
Quote from: Jaron on August 17, 2009, 09:18:07 PM
That man liked himself some young meat.
Jaron - sensitive as always in the face of tragedy. -_-
Title: Re: Elderly Couple Mauled to Death by pack of Dogs on rural road.
Post by: Jaron on August 17, 2009, 09:25:20 PM
I'm just saying..he was 77, she was 65?

Title: Re: Elderly Couple Mauled to Death by pack of Dogs on rural road.
Post by: Eddie Teach on August 17, 2009, 09:26:33 PM
Quote from: Jaron on August 17, 2009, 09:25:20 PM
I'm just saying..he was 77, she was 65?

77/2 + 7 = 45 1/2
Title: Re: Elderly Couple Mauled to Death by pack of Dogs on rural road.
Post by: DontSayBanana on August 17, 2009, 09:27:39 PM
Quote from: Jaron on August 17, 2009, 09:25:20 PM
I'm just saying..he was 77, she was 65?



Half plus seven, he passes with a lower threshold of 45-46. :smarty:

Dammit, Teach beat me. <_<
Title: Re: Elderly Couple Mauled to Death by pack of Dogs on rural road.
Post by: Sheilbh on August 17, 2009, 09:45:46 PM
Quote from: Jaron on August 17, 2009, 09:25:20 PM
I'm just saying..he was 77, she was 65?
That's not much of an age gap.
Title: Re: Elderly Couple Mauled to Death by pack of Dogs on rural road.
Post by: Jaron on August 17, 2009, 09:59:18 PM
12 years?
Title: Re: Elderly Couple Mauled to Death by pack of Dogs on rural road.
Post by: Eddie Teach on August 17, 2009, 10:01:05 PM
Quote from: Jaron on August 17, 2009, 09:59:18 PM
12 years?

Put it this way: both remembered what they were doing the day Kennedy was shot.
Title: Re: Elderly Couple Mauled to Death by pack of Dogs on rural road.
Post by: Sheilbh on August 17, 2009, 10:03:00 PM
Quote from: Jaron on August 17, 2009, 09:59:18 PM
12 years?
Yeah that's fine.
Title: Re: Elderly Couple Mauled to Death by pack of Dogs on rural road.
Post by: sbr on August 17, 2009, 10:07:31 PM
So how 'bout those dogs, huh?
Title: Re: Elderly Couple Mauled to Death by pack of Dogs on rural road.
Post by: Jaron on August 17, 2009, 10:18:41 PM
They were just doing what dogs do naturally. The humans shouldn't have encroached on their habitat.
Title: Re: Elderly Couple Mauled to Death by pack of Dogs on rural road.
Post by: Eddie Teach on August 17, 2009, 10:25:43 PM
Quote from: sbr on August 17, 2009, 10:07:31 PM
So how 'bout those dogs, huh?

They're hungry, hopefully.
Title: Re: Elderly Couple Mauled to Death by pack of Dogs on rural road.
Post by: CountDeMoney on August 18, 2009, 04:57:56 AM
Quote from: Jaron on August 17, 2009, 10:18:41 PM
They were just doing what dogs do naturally.

Eat their own shit and drag their asses on the carpet?
Title: Re: Elderly Couple Mauled to Death by pack of Dogs on rural road.
Post by: KRonn on August 18, 2009, 09:11:02 AM
Wow, nice doggies...  :huh: 

This reminds me of that case a couple years ago. The pair of vicious dogs some idiot and his wife/girlfriend kept in their apartment, that killed a female neighbor. The couple got some prison time for it.
Title: Re: Elderly Couple Mauled to Death by pack of Dogs on rural road.
Post by: Maximus on August 18, 2009, 09:12:52 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 18, 2009, 04:57:56 AM

Eat their own shit and drag their asses on the carpet?
:D
Title: Re: Elderly Couple Mauled to Death by pack of Dogs on rural road.
Post by: DisturbedPervert on August 18, 2009, 09:52:58 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 18, 2009, 04:57:56 AM
Quote from: Jaron on August 17, 2009, 10:18:41 PM
They were just doing what dogs do naturally.

Eat their own shit and drag their asses on the carpet?

My dog would never do that.  She only eats cat shit.
Title: Re: Elderly Couple Mauled to Death by pack of Dogs on rural road.
Post by: Octavian on August 18, 2009, 10:09:24 AM
Quote from: DisturbedPervert on August 18, 2009, 09:52:58 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 18, 2009, 04:57:56 AM
Quote from: Jaron on August 17, 2009, 10:18:41 PM
They were just doing what dogs do naturally.

Eat their own shit and drag their asses on the carpet?

My dog would never do that.  She only eats cat shit.

My dog only eats cats...and a couple of birds from time to time as a snack
Title: Re: Elderly Couple Mauled to Death by pack of Dogs on rural road.
Post by: Malthus on August 18, 2009, 10:13:50 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on August 17, 2009, 09:13:29 PM
York Schweder, one of the couple's two sons, had left for Georgia after hearing about his parents' death, said his mother-in-law, Toni Mora, who answered the phone at his home in Hutchinson, Kan. York Schweder did not immediately return a message left Monday on his cell phone.

A message left at a number listed for the couple's other son, who lives in Aiken, S.C., was not immediately returned.

I can hear the telephone interview already.

'So, both of your parents were brutally mauled to death by dogs.

[pause]

So ... how do you feel about that?'
Title: Re: Elderly Couple Mauled to Death by pack of Dogs on rural road.
Post by: Caliga on August 18, 2009, 10:45:39 AM
They probably make the n00bs do those kinds of interviews.  :cool:
Title: Re: Elderly Couple Mauled to Death by pack of Dogs on rural road.
Post by: MadImmortalMan on August 18, 2009, 10:57:49 AM
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Title: Re: Elderly Couple Mauled to Death by pack of Dogs on rural road.
Post by: garbon on August 18, 2009, 12:32:33 PM
Quote from: KRonn on August 18, 2009, 09:11:02 AM
Wow, nice doggies...  :huh: 

This reminds me of that case a couple years ago. The pair of vicious dogs some idiot and his wife/girlfriend kept in their apartment, that killed a female neighbor. The couple got some prison time for it.

Here's a famous case:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Whipple
Title: Re: Elderly Couple Mauled to Death by pack of Dogs on rural road.
Post by: DGuller on August 18, 2009, 01:07:37 PM
Dogs need to eat too.  Recession is hard on everybody.
Title: Re: Elderly Couple Mauled to Death by pack of Dogs on rural road.
Post by: KRonn on August 18, 2009, 01:25:14 PM
Quote from: garbon on August 18, 2009, 12:32:33 PM
Quote from: KRonn on August 18, 2009, 09:11:02 AM
Wow, nice doggies...  :huh: 

This reminds me of that case a couple years ago. The pair of vicious dogs some idiot and his wife/girlfriend kept in their apartment, that killed a female neighbor. The couple got some prison time for it.

Here's a famous case:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Whipple
Yeah, that's the case I was referring to.

More mad dog humans owning and training mad dogs to be dangerous and uncontrollable.  :mad:
Title: Re: Elderly Couple Mauled to Death by pack of Dogs on rural road.
Post by: Neil on August 18, 2009, 07:59:47 PM
This is what happens when we don't keep dog numbers down with dogfighting.