Audi Sanchez had a long history of mental illness. For half a decade, she was in and out of hospitals and was diagnosed with multiple forms of psychosis. Audi first tried drugs in 2006, and that was when the voices started. Her drug use resulted in her moving to Austin, Texas, where she was hospitalized again and diagnosed with psychosis. She was subsequently given a prescription and released.
In 2008, Audi was seen at the San Antonio Hospital for being paranoid, mildly delusional, depressed, and psychotic with hallucinations. Her medication was changed, and the voices finally stopped. Yet, the price of her medication resulted in her stopping them not long after. Coming off the medication, Audi got pregnant. While pregnant, she saw a counselor for depression yet declined any medication. After her baby Scott was born, she slipped further into depression, and the voices began again.
On July 20th, 2009, Audi was taken by emergency services to Methodist Hospital. Audi was suffering from auditory and visual hallucinations as well as delusions. Audi asked to be admitted to the hospital’s 31-bed inpatient psychiatric unit in regards to the voices she heard and because her baby Scott’s face was changing. Instead, she was discharged to the care of her sister. From there, her feelings of paranoia increased. Audi brought her son to her sister when she wasn’t feeling right. After her sister thought she was fine, the baby was returned. While the rest of the family slept, Audi started to listen to the voices she heard. She killed and dismembered Scotty. Her sister awoke to Audi screaming, and upon finding the scene, called 911.
Oh my god. San Antonio Fire, how can we help you?
NBS at 351 Wayside Drive.
51 Wayside, is it a house or an apartment?
It’s a house. It’s an emergency.
And what’s going on? What’s the emergency?
I’m sorry.
What’s the emergency? What’s going on?
My sister has, she’s hurt her child. Hello? Hello?
Tell me what’s going on. Don’t talk to the other people, talk to me.
My sister has, she’s hurt her child seriously.
You hurt her child? How did she do that? What’s going on with the child?
The baby is dead.
What did you say?
The baby is dead.
How old is the baby?
Maybe three weeks. Not even three weeks old.
Three weeks old. Not even three weeks old. What did she do to him or her?
She stabbed him. There’s blood all over the head. I don’t know.
All right, ma’am, I’m going to connect you up to the police, okay? Stay on the line. All right, go ahead. What is your name?
My name is Priscilla Garcia.
Where is your sister at?
Stay there. Stay there. Stay there.
I’m sorry, Priscilla, where’s your sister at?
She’s just sitting on the couch. She’s, she’s going crazy. Last night she was hearing voices, and she kept bringing me the baby. And finally, she calmed down, and I took her back the baby, and then now I just woke up to hear screaming.
Okay, how old is the baby?
And three weeks old. She’s, she’s, the baby’s dead. The baby’s dead. She needs somebody call. And their other wife are okay. I need the keys so fucking open the front door. My god.
Ma’am. Ma’am.
Yes, yes.
Do not touch the baby. Don’t disturb anything in the area there, okay?
Right. My mom, my mom was holding the baby. My mom was holding the baby. The baby down.
All right. All right, ma’am, we, everybody’s on the way to help you, okay?
Oh, I need to find the, the key for the front door. No, no, nobody’s there. It’s okay, baby. Just stay right there.
Is that your sister?
Yes. Oh my god, I can’t believe. You yourself.
Yes, sir, I told you to come to me. I told you I was not dead. I’m standing right here talking to you.
Priscilla.
Yes.
Where did she stab herself?
In the heart and in the stomach. She says, where did you, I see, I see a wound in her, on her heart. Yes, I’m looking at her right now. Yes.
Okay, all right, they’re on their way, okay?
Oh my god. Oh my god, I love you. Mila, calm down. I didn’t do all my appointment with EMS right now. I can’t call him right now.
Ma’am.
Yes.
I’m going to go ahead and let you go, okay? They’re on their way. All right?
All right, bye-bye.
Police arrived on scene to a heinous sight which resulted in them seeking psychological help. Audi sat on the couch with a stab wound to her chest and her throat partially slashed, screaming, “I killed my baby, I killed my baby.” The scene was too graphic for police to describe, but Audi had decapitated the baby and eaten part of his brain. She also ate other parts of him, including three tiny toes. She said the voices told her to kill him because he was the apocalypse. She states she gagged while eating him, but the voices told her to keep eating him to remove the demon in her stomach. Audi was found not guilty by reason of insanity and is being held in a mental hospital until she is deemed to no longer be a danger to herself and others.
In May of 2009, Lester Lee Jeter filed for a separation from his wife and mother of two daughters, Deborah Janelle Jeter. For unknown reasons, a neighbor who lived down the street from the family admitted to having called the police a few times on the residence. It was a noisy house, and other neighbors also had to call the police, he stated. Deborah Jeter took the news very hard. Not long after, Deborah attempted suicide and received psychiatric treatment.
Lee filed for divorce and was granted a temporary restraining order against his wife. Lee wrote to the court revealing that his wife had attempted suicide with the children in the home and was under the care and observation at DePaul Center on a mental health warrant. He expressed concerns she may be released within a few days, writing, “and I’m concerned about her possible actions regarding the children.” Lee’s request was held for the duration of his wife’s hospital care, but the day before Deborah visited her two children, the judge decided to lift the restraining order against her. Lee says he agreed with the judge, claiming that Deborah had shown no resentment towards her children nor had she ever put them in harm’s way. The girls seemed to be excited about the decision; it had been 14 days since they last saw their mother. At the news of the decision, 12-year-old little Kelsey expressed her happiness on her MySpace page, writing, “I get to see my mom tomorrow yay.”
When Deborah picked up her daughters that day, she told her estranged husband she had a surprise for them. She drove her daughters to an abandoned house at 215 US Highway 77, where she charged Kirsten with a knife. While under attack, Kirsten yelled for her sister to run. Deborah released Kirsten, who was now wounded, and charged at Kelsey. During the attack, Kirsten threw herself over her sister in hopes of saving her. She received a stab wound in the back as a result. Once Deborah had concluded attacking her own children, she picked up her phone and dialed 911.
Hill County 911, what’s your emergency?
I just killed my children.
Excuse me?
I just killed my children.
Where are you?
Um, I’m in the abandoned house on Highway 77, right after you go underneath the highway. One of them is still alive, hurry.
How, under what highway? You’re on Highway 77, where?
I’m on Highway 77 right after you go under 35, going towards Milford. Get an ambulance out here to save the one that didn’t die. Go on, hurry up.
What’s your name?
Call them. Have you already called them?
Yes, ma’am, I have. Okay, I need your name.
I don’t want to tell you your name.
Hello? Hello, are you still there?
Yes, I’m still here.
77 toward Milford, right after you cross under the bridge. She’s telling me she’s killed her children. Are you in your car?
No, I’m not in my car. I’m in the house walking around, and, um, one of them is still alive, for real. She’s asking to be saved, and I couldn’t handle that, and so now she, she’s in an abandoned house. It’s been a long time, she might already die cuz she’s flat out and, hold on, what? She said, please.
Okay, well, I’ve got, we’ve got people in route.
Get, get an ambulance cuz one of them is still alive.
She said, can you tell me what happened? Ma’am? Hello, ma’am, can you tell me what happened?
I can’t get the door open.
You can’t get what door open, darling?
The front door, so y’all can come in when you get here.
Why won’t it open?
I don’t know, hold on.
Are you on the right-hand side of the road or the left-hand side of the road, sweetie?
No, they’re coming. They’re coming. I just, I just want to try to clarify, clarify exactly where they are. Can you tell me what happened?
I don’t want to say. I don’t see any lights, they’re not coming.
Well, they’re on their way. My partner’s getting, getting them to you just as quickly as she can. How many body, how many children do you have? Huh?
Two. Two. One is dead. One of them is dead, she said that. But the other one, she wants to be saved, and I need to be safe, and I don’t see any lights. Tell them to get the fuck out here.
Honey, they’re coming. They’re coming. Any other information? Do you have any weapons?
Um, I do. I have a knife.
She has a knife. Should I go?
No, ma’am, just, just put it in, she’s got a knife. Hurry.
Okay, tell her we’re on our way. You want to get a name or anything? Won’t give me. Can you not tell me what your name is? Huh? What’s your name, darling?
I’m not telling you my name.
How old are your children?
Hold on.
Hurry up, honey, they are coming. They’re on their way. You should be hearing lots and sirens, seeing lights and hearing sirens going on. I’m going to be with you. You said you just, you cross under the bridge that goes to, on 77 toward Milford. You crossed under the bridge to 35, and you’re in an abandoned house, is that right?
Yes, under 35, cross under 35 on the abandoned house up on the hill on the left.
She’s, she says she’s in the, yes, in the house on the hill. Hold on, buddy. Sweetie, do you hear him now? Do you hear those sirens and stuff? You know where that house is? I’m not sure where that house is that you cross under the bridge, hunter. There’s going to be a house that’s off to your left-hand side. It’s going to be hard to see, it’s almost covered by trees and stuff like that. Are you there? Are you still with me?
I’m still with you. Hello, I’m here. They’re not here.
They, they’re on their way, sweetheart. They had to come from different parts of the county. Hold on, kid, they’re coming.
Tell them not to shoot me, I don’t have a gun.
Okay, she doesn’t want to get shot cuz she doesn’t have a gun. When they get there, okay? When they get there, uh-huh, I want you to lay the knife down out, when you get the door open, I want you to lay the knife down so they can see that you don’t have any weapons, okay? They’re hurrying, honey, they’re hurrying to 117. Okay, I believe to the right if you’re coming northbound. Oh my god, she’s dead. Oh my god, how old are the children?
I’m not telling you.
She wants you to hurry, honey. They are coming, they’re coming as fast as they can. They’re trying to be sure. Do you see them? They’re coming. Do you see them? Do you see them? They’re coming. Can you see the lights well?
I see something down at the end of the road. I see car lights, but not, not flying lights, not police lights.
She says the driveway. She says they’re signs, I hear them, okay?
No, I don’t see him.
She needs to come out with her hands up, okay? You need to drive.
I know, I understand that. I want driveway with my hands up. I’m, she’s by the house, both hands up except for one cuz I’m on the phone.
They’re coming. She’s, she’s got her hands up except for the fact that the one that she’s on the phone with. So she’s out in the yard, she said she’s out in the yard beside the house, okay?
Goodbye, I see them. They’re right here. Goodbye.
All right, bye.
Deborah pleaded guilty to capital murder and attempted capital murder and was sentenced to life in prison without parole on May 27th, 2010, in a plea deal that saved her from a death sentence and saved her surviving daughter from having to testify. Kirsten’s selflessness barely saved Kelsey’s life. Before being transferred, she met with her estranged husband and surviving child. He said that she told him she hated him, but that she was very sorry for everything that happened. He said his daughter shared a few light-hearted moments with her mother, during which they talked and laughed. Deborah stated that the reason she attacked Kirsten and her younger sister Kelsey was that she was heartbroken over the couple’s separation and subsequent child custody dispute. She believed they all felt the same way, so she wanted to take away all of their pain.
Twenty-five-year-old Beatatric Santo Silva breaks up with 31-year-old Daniel Sanchez on Thanksgiving 2012 after a physical fight. December 15th, 2012, Daniel and his ex-girlfriend Beatatrice meet up to talk about Daniel paying her back for a loan she’d given him. That ends up in a physical fight and the police being called, with Beatatrice saying that she was also being held against her will. The following day on December 16th, 2012, Daniel is arrested. December 17th, 2012, at 10:00 p.m., the day after being arrested, Daniel is released on bond and Beatatrice is notified of his release. She is offered additional police protection, which she declines. The police advised her to go stay somewhere else since he knows where she is staying. She decides to stay where she is at her sister and brother-in-law’s house. December 18th, 2012, 6 hours after his release, at 4:00 a.m., Daniel shoots out the locks on the back door and enters the property.
911, what’s the address of the emergency?
I need you to say the address. I can’t understand you.
11464 Hot Springs.
Okay, repeat the address one more time to make sure I have it right.
No, no, no.
Hello? Hello, okay, this is 911, what’s going on?
I just shot everybody right now.
You just shot everybody?
Yeah.
Okay, what is your name?
Daniel Sanchez, Pablo Sanchez.
Okay, how many people did you shoot?
Uh, three.
You shot who? People, who, who did you shoot?
My ex-girlfriend cuz she was cheating on me with Roy.
Okay.
And I’m going to shoot myself right now.
Pablo, I need you to stay on the phone with me, okay? Just wait until we get there, Pablo, okay? Just stay with me, okay? Don’t shoot yourself, okay? Okay, tell me exactly what happened.
Um, like six months ago, I called my girlfriend. Cheated on me, uh-huh, and, uh, I told Roy to stop talking to her.
Okay.
She wouldn’t do it. He pressed charges on me, kidnapping. I’m not on bond, but, uh.
Okay, so she pressed charges on you for kidnapping, okay?
Yeah, for my girlfriend too, so know what they were doing.
Okay, who else was there? Um, what do you mean, who else was there with, with you tonight? The other two people, do you know who they were?
Oh, her sister and her, and her, uh, husband.
Okay. Okay. Okay, how did you get there? You drove, you drove there?
Yes.
Okay, are you there by yourself?
Yes.
Okay. Okay, what room are you in right now? Pablo? Pablo? Hello?
I think he just shot himself.
Daniel Sanchez shot and killed his ex-girlfriend, Beatatric Santo Silva, who had been staying with her sister and brother-in-law at their home. Daniel also shot and killed the couple, Maria Cento Silva, age 22, and Max Aguero Jada, aged 32, before turning the gun on himself and pulling the trigger.
A neighbor heard the sounds of what she thought was a cat in her trash can. After moving several bags, she spotted a baby. Being too short to safely retrieve the newborn, she went to her neighbor for help. The neighbor, Robert Angler, was able to safely remove the baby from the trash can. The woman immediately pulled out her phone and dialed 911.
911, what’s the address of the emergency?
Yeah, there’s a baby in our garbage can, and I thought it was a cat. I was outside just a minute ago, and I, I got my mother-in-law to come out, and we lifted the trash bags off, and there’s a baby in the garbage can.
Is it alive?
Yes.
Okay, is it breathing?
I think so cuz he sounds like a cat in distress, and I don’t know how to get him out. Neither one of us are tall enough, and if we dip it, the grass is going to go over on top of him.
Okay, just stay on the phone with me. We’re going to want to send medical. Oh my god. Okay, just stay on the phone with me, I’m getting some help on the way. Are you with, are you with the baby now?
My mom and I are both outside, I can’t reach them.
How old does the baby look?
It looks newborn. I mean, it can’t be more than, I don’t know, oh my gosh.
Okay, we’ve got some help on the way, just stay on the phone with me, okay?
Got to be newborn, I don’t know, he’s in the trash.
Okay, is, is it awake?
He’s, he’s moving. I can’t see that his eyes are open. His head looks a little bruised on one side.
Okay, I don’t even know if it’s pee, but I’m assuming. Is he bleeding?
He’s not bleeding, but I can see, okay, somebody buried him in our garbage because I was out taking the trash out yesterday too. We don’t have very much in there, but they, they put him underneath, and I thought he was a cat. I was out here earlier, and I thought there was a cat in our bushes.
We’ve got some help on the way, I’m sending the paramedics to help you now. Just stay on the line, I’ll tell you exactly what to do next.
I can’t reach him cuz I’m not tall enough.
Okay, can, can you see if he’s breathing?
He is breathing, and he’s making noises.
Okay.
There’s still the cord on there, so he’s got to be newborn. He’s still got an umbilical on his belly button.
Okay, just stay on the phone with me, I’m going to get us through to the Unified Police Department as well, okay? Okay, 911, what is the location of your emergency? I’ve got the caller on the line, she says somebody put a baby in her garbage can. The baby is still breathing, it’s making noises, the cord is still attached, but she can’t get it out of the garbage can, she’s not tall enough. So we’ve got the medical on the way. Doing a great job, I want you to watch the baby closely, okay?
Okay, we’ve got the neighbor over, and we’re going to get him out of the garbage can, so he is, he’s breathing, okay. Have someone go get a blanket.
We have a blanket, okay. Okay.
If he becomes less awake and vomits, quickly turn him on his side, okay? Is this a house or an apartment?
It’s a house. Minus five, why would they do that?
And if he gets worse in any way, I want you to let me know immediately for further instructions, okay? Okay, okay, you’re doing great, you’re doing great, okay.
Out of, he’s out of the garbage can. Okay, so is it a male, is it a boy? We need to look, buddy, are you a boy? It is a fresh baby, okay, oh, I’m afraid to move him.
Okay, you know what, just, just hold on to him and cradle him, okay? Is he awake?
He, he’s, I don’t know if his eyes are open, but he’s crying, so.
Okay, so his eyes are open. We’re, I’m on the phone with him now.
His eyes are not open, okay, he’s brand new.
They’re sending the paramedics, there they are. Are they arriving now?
I can hear sirens, so hopefully. Okay. Okay, just stay on the phone with me. All right, I’m here, you’re doing great, and let me know if the baby, are you guys standing outside with the baby right now?
Um, yes, our neighbor has him, okay, too far away from the house cuz you’re, I’m on a cordless, so.
Okay, is, is he bleeding from the umbilical cord?
There’s no blood coming off the umbilical cord for long. I mean, whoever did it left a good eight to ten inches of umbilical.
Okay, and there’s no blood?
There’s no blood that I can see, and whoever it is covered them up with the trash, okay. They were in there for a while morning, I came out at, at 6:00 when my husband went to work, and I heard something that I thought was a cat in distress. And I couldn’t find him because it was still dark, and then when I looked in the garbage, I, I’m blind in one eye, and so I saw something that looked like a paw, so I went in and I got my mother-in-law to help. And when we took the bag of trash off the top, it was a baby. Oh, I’m so glad you checked.
I’m, I’m glad you checked, you’re doing a great job, okay. They’re here, they’re with you right now, they’re pulling up as we speak. Okay, just let me know when they’re right with you, okay? Okay.
I can’t believe anybody would do this.
I know, I know. I’m going to hang up with you guys, all right? Thanks, I’m just going to stay on the phone with you until they’re right with you and the baby, okay?
Okay, they’re out. Someone put a baby in our garbage can, they’re here.
Okay, I’ll go ahead and let you go. Thank you, thanks, bye-bye.
An investigation by the Unified Police Department discovered that the caller’s neighbor, Alicia Angler, Robert’s daughter, was the baby’s mother. The baby girl was born on August 24th; yes, it was a girl, trust me, I know the caller said a boy. Alicia gave birth in a bathroom inside the house she lived in with her family around midnight. After wrapping the infant in a towel, she left it on the floor of the basement bathroom. She then left for work the following day, leaving the baby alone without even caring for it. She came back home that night, still leaving the infant on the floor.
The next morning, she put the baby in her neighbor’s trash can just before 6:00 a.m. She told investigators that her family, friends, and co-workers didn’t know that she was pregnant, and she didn’t know who the father was. Fearing her parents would freak out if they found out she was pregnant and had delivered a baby, she decided to put the baby in her neighbor’s trash can. Authorities said that she discarded the baby in the hopes that it would die and solve her problems.
It was initially unclear whether the baby would survive. Doctors at the hospital said the baby was in severely critical condition with a very low core body temperature and was covered in feces and exuberated depressed responsiveness. The baby was transferred to Primary Children’s Medical Center, where doctors indicated that the infant was suffering from hypothermia, severe respiratory distress, bloodborne infection, and cardiovascular insufficiency requiring mechanical ventilation.
Thankfully, doctors were able to stabilize the baby’s condition, and she was discharged from the hospital after several days. Alicia was charged with the attempted murder of the infant. She was found mentally incompetent to face charges in February 2015. She has posted bail and been out ever since. She has also been going in and out of court to decide if she’s mentally competent enough to stand trial, with her parents arguing that she didn’t understand what was happening after she gave birth to the baby. They further claimed that she was special needs and doesn’t process things correctly.
She was also granted a 90-minute goodbye visit with the baby, though it is said that the goodbye was mostly for the grandfather, who supposedly never even knew he had a granddaughter until the point they found her in a trash can. Which, oddly enough, the neighbor came and got him to retrieve. Just imagine that, if he really didn’t know he had a granddaughter, the first time he ever met her was pulling her out of a trash can.
Sandra Herald was the proud owner of a chimpanzee named Travis, an animal actor who appeared on several TV shows and commercials. He was known for being well-behaved, save for a 2003 incident in which he held up traffic after a pedestrian threw something at the car that went through a partially open window and struck Travis. Travis unbuckled his seat belt, opened the car door, and chased the man, but did not catch him. Growing up around people, Travis had been socialized to humans since birth. A neighbor who once wrestled with Travis even said, “He listened better than my nephews.”
February 16th, 2009, 55-year-old Charlotte Nash was visiting her friend Sandra at her home. Charlotte had been around Travis plenty of times, having been a friend and employee of Sandra’s Towing Company. Sandra’s pet chimp Travis, who was on medication for Lyme disease, grabs his owner’s car keys and runs outside. Charlotte, wanting to help her friend get her pet back inside, grabs Travis’s favorite toy, a Tickle Me Elmo. Travis attacked her immediately. Seventy-year-old Sandra attempted to stop the attack by hitting Travis with a shovel and stabbing him with a knife. This only made him angrier.
Stand for 911, where’s your emergency?
This is 241 Rock Criminal Road.
What’s the problem?
Send the police, send the police.
What’s the problem there?
The chimp killed my, my friend.
What’s the problem with your friend, please? What’s the problem with your friend? I need to know.
The police up with a gun, with a gun, hurry up.
Who has a gun, please?
Hurry up, he’s killing my girlfriend.
What is the problem?
He’s killing my friend.
Who’s killing your friend?
My chimpanzee.
Oh, your chimp is killing your friend?
He ripped her apart, hurry up with a gun, hurry up, please. There’s someone on the way with guns, please, just shoot him.
What is the monkey doing? Tell me what the monkey.
He ripped her face off, he ripped her face off. He tried to, trying to attack me. Please, please.
Okay, I need you to calm down a little bit. They’re on the way. Can you put yourself away? I don’t want the monkey attacking you.
Please hurry up. Listen to me, uh, they’re on the way, man. They got to shoot him. Please, please, hurry, hurry.
Are you there with your friend? I need you to help your friend. Can you go help your friend?
I can’t, he tried to attack me. Now, if he’s still there with your friend.
Yes.
Okay, so then back off then, don’t get any closer, okay? They’re already on the way. Please, if the monkey moves away from your friend, let me know, okay? So we could try to help your friend.
No, no, I can’t. She’s dead, she’s dead.
Why, why are you saying that?
She’s dead, she’s dead. He ripped her apart.
He ripped what apart?
Her face, everything, he ripped her apart. Listen, I think I’m going to flee. I think I’m going to pass.
No, just breathe, okay? I’m going to stay with you on the phone until they get there. Listen to me.
Please hurry, please, please hurry, please. Oh my god, they got to have their guns out, they, they got to have their guns out. Listen to me, oh my god.
Is this your monkey, or whose monkey is it? It’s your monkey?
No, it’s mine.
How, how do you know, how big is he? How many pounds? 200 lb, 400?
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200 lb, listen to me, please. Where are they? Where are they?
And he’s a chimp, correct?
Yes.
Where is, where are they? They’re going your way, they’re going as fast as they can your way, okay?
Please, please go faster, please, please, Derek, please, please, please. Is the monkey still by your friend, or can you get close to your friend? Please God, no, please.
Okay, I need you to calm down for me. I know it’s hard, okay? I know it’s hard, but they’re going as fast as they can your way, okay?
Oh my god, please. They, tell them they got to shoot him because I tried stabbing him and he’s not, and it made him worse, okay? Have them shoot him.
They will, Sandra. I really have the fire department close by, okay? So as soon as the police get there, the fire department is going to move in, okay? The fire department can’t move in yet, but as soon as the police officers show up.
Please tell them shoot him because he’s going to try to attack me now. Just breathe, Sandra.
Shoot him, shoot him. Sandra, stay in your car.
Shoot him, Sandra.
I need you to stay in your car.
Shoot him, please. I tried stabbing him and, and he’s hurt now too, so, so he’s going to attack anybody. I can’t get out of this car.
Lock your doors on your car and stay there with me.
It don’t matter, it don’t matter, it don’t matter, he will rip the doors.
Sandra, just do what I’m telling you to, stay in the car. The police officers will handle it.
Please tell him to shoot him, please, please tell him, please tell him to kill him, please.
They did, Sandra, they’re shooting at him already, okay? But he’s not dead. I know, that will continue until he’s dead, okay? I just need you to stay on the phone with me and breathe.
He’s not dead, he’s not dead, he’s not dead. Oh god, oh god.
Emergency Medical Services waited for police before approaching the house. When the police car arrived, Travis walked up to it, tried to open the locked passenger door, and smashed a side-view mirror. He then went to the driver’s door and opened it, at which point the officer shot him several times. Travis ran to the house, where he was found dead next to his cage.
Within the following 72 hours, Charlotte underwent more than 7 hours of surgery on her face and hands by four teams of surgeons. The hospital even provided counseling to its staff members who initially treated her due to the extraordinary nature of her wounds. She lost her hands, having every finger ripped off of them, nose, eyes, lips, and mid-face bone structure, and received significant brain tissue injuries. Doctors were able to reattach her jaw but announced that she would be blind for life.
Her injuries made her a possible candidate for an experimental face transplant surgery, and she received a donated face and hands. Though the hand transplant was initially successful, Charlotte developed pneumonia shortly after, and the doctors were forced to remove her newly transplanted hands due to the infection. Travis’s head was tested for rabies; the results came back negative, though they did still show traces of Xanax prescribed to him for his Lyme disease. The vet that prescribed it was also investigated, because I guess you’re not supposed to give Xanax to chimps, who would have thought. In March 2009, an attorney for Charlotte Nash’s family filed a $50 million lawsuit against Sandra Herald. Sandra passed away in May of 2010. Charlotte settled with Herald’s estate and received approximately $4 million.
I appreciate you guys checking out this video. I know some of you might have heard it, but hopefully the upgrade and the visuals and the calls as well will add something a little more. It’s one of those things, like I said, when I first started the series, I didn’t know if it would become a thing. In fact, the whole series tanked when it first started; I did episode one and it got like no views, so I stopped doing it for a while, went back to my normal thing, and then did episode two, and they’ve slowly just started doing better.
