Patricia Ritz, a Kentucky resident who recently disappeared, may have been eaten by her wolf-dogs.
Investigators believe that Ritz got sick and died, leaving her dogs to eat her for food.
Ritz had multiple run-ins with law enforcement over mistreatment of her dogs, going back to at least 1996, reported WFIE.
In one case in 1997, Kentucky authorities found 120 dogs in her possession, and she was found guilty of second-degree cruelty.
In 1999, 184 dogs were found on her property; 159 had to be euthanized. Ritz was allowed to keep the others, but only after spaying and neutering them.
More than 50 wolf-dog hybrids were found on Ritz’s property in Fordsville.
“After the sadness, there was relief,” said Mary Beth Kolb with Adopt-a-Husky Rescue. “There absolutely was relief that this will never happen again.”
27 of the dogs are at a veterinarian hospital in Owensboro, while officials are working on placing the other ones.
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