Realising she couldn't help, she called emergency services. "For me to do something like that - put a knife in him - was like putting one in myself," she said later. Sandra watched in horror as her "baby" attacked her friend and tried to intervene, hitting Travis with a shovel and even stabbing him. There has been some speculation that he didn't recognise Charla with her new hairstyle, and also that his Lyme disease medication affected his behaviour. She went out to help her friend look for the mischievous chimp, who she had known for years.īut when Travis saw Charla holding a Tickle Me Elmo, one of his favourite toys, he snapped and attacked her. Hungry chimps are killing and eating human children as their habitat shrinksĬharla, then 55, was visiting Sandra when Travis stole some car keys and ran out of the house.'Chimp on loose' terrorising Texas town attacking people and swinging from trees.Travis was allowed to stay with Sandra because authorities didn't think he was a threat, but they were proved wrong in 2009.Ĭharla had been a long-term friend of Susan Herold (Image: Splash News/NBC) Read More Related Articles
It took police hours to get him back home and prompted Connecticut to ban the ownership of primates weighing more than 50 lbs (22kg). In 2003 he escaped from the family car while it was stuck in traffic, chasing after a man who had thrown something through the window. "Until you've eaten with a chimp and bathed with a chimp, you don't know a chimp," she once said.īut over time it became clear she didn't know Travis completely, as his behaviour became concerning. After the double-tragedy Travis became a surrogate child to Sandra in her grief and would sleep in her bed every night. Jerome died of cancer in 2004, and the couple's only daughter died in a car crash sometime later. He loved going on the computer to look at pictures and videos and even learned to drive a car. Lucky punter wins £100k from £50 14-match accumulator he picked by accident.Crazed pet chimp wails as he rips off woman's face and eats eyes in harrowing phone call.
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