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Article: Murder unleashed.(woman mauled to death by dog in San Francisco, California)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- March 13, 2001
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The girlfriend of a woman killed by an attack dog fights back against the owners, who suggest the victim was at fault
Diane Alexis Whipple was mauled to death by a 120-pound Presa Canario dog in front of her San Francisco apartment, and now Whipple's lesbian partner is vowing to see the dog's owners jailed. "I want to see [Robert Noel and Marjorie Knoller] locked up," Sharon Smith, Whipple's girlfriend of seven years, told the San Francisco Chronicle. "I believe ... they let this happen." Smith said the dog had bitten Whipple the month of the fatal attack, an allegation confirmed by Whipple's coworkers at St. Mary's College of California, where she coached ...