59-Year-Old Texas Woman's Death Was Caused By 'Exsanguination Due To Feral Hog Assault'

[Sugar Cookie]

A Texas woman who worked as a caregiver and was found dead outside of the home of the elderly couple she looked after, was attacked and killed by wild hogs, authorities have revealed.

Christine Rollins, 59, was discovered with 'animal related injuries' outside the home in the rural area of Anahuac, Texas on Sunday morning.

On Monday Chambers County Sheriff Brian Hawthorn announced that the autopsy results showed the cause of death was 'exsanguination due to feral hog assault'.

'There were a lot of things related to the death that didn't add up. Some of it were animal bites,' Hawthorne said at a press conference Monday.

'My detectives and the criminal investigation team felt like [feral hogs] was what it was but we couldn't come close to announcing until we had the cause of death from the medical examiner's office,' Hawthorne added.

Rollins was on the property of the elderly couple she looked after that spanned 10 to 12 acres. Authorities say 'the feral hogs have taken over some of their family land.'

Sheriff Hawthorn said the hog assault is a 'very rare incident' and less than six of such deaths have been reported in the U.S.

Dead Texas caregiver was attacked and killed by wild hogs

Texas caregiver Christine Rollins, 59, was attacked and killed by feral hogs on Sunday outside a home in Anahuac, the Chambers County Sheriff's Office announced Monday.

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[Craygor]

Having a wild hog feed on a corpse is a pretty good way to hide a murder.

 

[EyEgOrE]

wait... were these the coked-up hogs from France? Has the invasion begun??

 

[Sejanus]

Dirty pigs.

 

[Jellyfish Brain]

I remember when I was in Austria visiting family, I was about 12. I went for a stroll in a forest near my uncle's house with flip flops and headphones, not a care in the world. When I got back my uncle's like "Didn't run into any wild boars? That's good that forests full of them" I was like "WHAT THE FUCK YOU GUYS JUST LET ME GO IN THERE LIKE THAT WITHOUT WARNING ME" I didn't speak to my grandpa or him for 2 days after that I laugh about it now but goddamn as this story shows, those animals are not to be fucked with.

 

[DaveL]

wait... were these the coked-up hogs from France? Has the invasion begun??

That was Italy, if I recall correctly.

So that would have made it Italian hogs, Albanian coke, and a Texas exsanguination, which sounds like what you'd get if Tim Burton wrote a Benetton ad.

 

[Inferus]

Guess the hogs prefer dark meat.

 

[Forfcuksake]

wait... were these the coked-up hogs from France? Has the invasion begun??

Yeah, they went from Italy to France and now to Texas because they heard about the drug cartels.
The hogs just can’t handle the comedown and need another fix

 

[Turd Fergusen]

“Exsanguination due to feral hog assault” was the official cause of death for 59-year-old Christine Rawlings as determined by the local medical examiner and announced by Sheriff Brian Hawthorne of Chambers County, Texas.

She had been set upon around 6 a.m. on Nov. 22 as she arrived at the residence where she worked as a home care attendant for an elderly couple.


“It was probably still dark and that is when hogs normally move, in the dark hours,” Hawthorne told a press conference the next day. “She had gotten out of her car and locked it.”

In the next moment, the feral hogs, also called feral pigs, were on her, slashing with curved lower teeth kept razor sharp by grinding them against the uppers.

“Multiple animals,” Hawthorne
He noted that an attack by any number of feral pigs on a human is unusual.

“This is very rare,” Hawthorne said. “Less than six in the nation over many years.”

He added, “I don’t know how many we’ve had in Texas. I hope we don’t have another one in Chambers County.”

Hawthorne said that the couple who employed Rawlings lived on “10 or 12 acres of pasture and woods.”

“Obviously, the feral hogs have taken over some of their family land,” he said.

He described the area in front of the house where the creatures attacked as “what we thought might have been a crime scene.”

“It’s clearly an assault but it will be ruled an accident because it was not a human,” he said. “So it was not a homicide.”
What precipitated the feral pig attack remained difficult to determine. The leading expert on the animals, research scientist Jack Mayer of the Savannah River National Laboratory South Carolina, senior author of Wild Pigs in the United States, suggests that the exact cause may remain a mystery.

“I have no idea what might have possessed the pigs to do that,” Mayer said. “I don’t know if we’ll ever know.”

Mayer confirmed that such attacks are unusual, though less rare than shark attacks. Sharks average about six fatal attacks a year globally. Feral pigs are at that now.

“But you never read about them,” Mayer said.

Steven Spielberg made a movie called Jaws, not Tusks. But feral pigs have multiplied into the millions and are hugely destructive, ravenous omnivores rooting through fields to farms to lawns in their endless search for food.

“It’s a crazy situation,” Mayer said, “with everything that’s happened in what I call the Pig Bomb, which has exploded in North America.”

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