Indiana woman found dead with 8 foot long python wrapped around neck

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Woman found dead with 8-foot python around her neck

A bizarre story

 

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It happened in a home owned by Benton County Sheriff Don Munson — used specifically to house more than 140 snakes. It was Munson who found Hurst dead.

 

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It happened in a home owned by Benton County Sheriff Don Munson — used specifically to house more than 140 snakes. It was Munson who found Hurst dead.

The house was only used for the snakes?? How weird.

 

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The house was only used for the snakes?? How weird.

Other reports said the “snake house” was next door to the home of Sheriff Don Munson, who owned both homes.

 

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Autopsy: 8-foot python strangled Battle Ground mother in Benton Co. sheriff's snake-filled house

Kevin Grant, who owns a Lafayette tax and financial services firm, worked for a short time with Hurst. Grant said she loved her two children. And she had a penchant for snakes. The attorney in her divorce proceedings told the J&C on Thursday that possession of snakes played a role in negotiations in the case.

 

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How long does it take for a python of that size to incapacitate a human?

 

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The house was only used for the snakes?? How weird.

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OXFORD, Ind. – A 36-year-old Battle Ground woman was killed Wednesday after she was found with an 8-foot snake wrapped around her neck in an Oxford house, owned by Benton County Sheriff Don Munson and set up specifically for a collection of snakes, Indiana State Police said.

Laura Hurst apparently kept snakes in the house in the 600 block of North Dan Patch Drive, about 25 miles from Lafayette, Sgt. Kim Riley, an Indiana State Police spokesman, said.Munson, who lives next door to the house, told the J&C Thursday afternoon that he found Hurst in the blue ranch house with the snakes on Wednesday evening.

 

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How long does it take for a python of that size to incapacitate a human?

The reticulated python, the longest living species of snake in the world, are constrictors, meaning they coil around their prey and squeeze them until they're dead in just a couple minutes, according to Cornell University professor Harry W. Greene