Florida Couple Stands Trial After Starving Python Kills 2-Year-Old Girl
Posted on Jul 12, 2011 @ 06:30AM - 16 comments
by Radar Staff
First Casey Anthony – now, another trial attracting national attention is getting underway in Florida.
One day after the jury was sworn in, opening statements begin Tuesday morning in Sumter County in the trial of a couple whose starving python strangled a 2-year-old girl in Oxford, Fla.
VIDEO: Tape Surfaces Of Whale That Crashed On Sailboat!
Posted on Jul 23, 2010 @ 06:35AM - 1 comment
So much for the skeptics who thought a photo of a whale crashing into a South African couple's ship was photoshopped: a video of the incident was captured by a nearby boater, proving the stranger-than-fiction occurrence to be true.
Watch the clip on RadarOnline.com
VIDEO: Shocking Bison Attack Caught On Tape
Posted on Jul 23, 2010 @ 05:57AM - Add a comment
A married couple and their relative cheated death after they were almost trampled by a marauding bison at scenic Yellowstone National Park, and RadarOnline.com has the video of the terrifying incident.
Cathy Hayes - a teacher from Utah - was videotaping the huge beast at the park in Wyoming while her husband Jeff and his brother Donald watched-on.
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New Details About Whale Attack Responsible for SeaWorld Trainer's Death
Posted on Mar 01, 2010 @ 05:05PM - 11 comments
On Monday, Florida's Orange County Sheriff's Department released the witness statements relating to the death of SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau. RadarOnline.com has copies of the statements which add chilling detail about the lead up to and aftermath of whale Tilikum's February 24 attack.
Read the Witness Statements
Jan Topeleski, a trainer spotter who Brancheau supervised, was in the underwater viewing area preparing for the guiding animal show and photo tour during which the trainers get the whales to come to the glass to pose for a picture for the theme park's guests.
VIDEO: Witness Describes Whale Attack; Whale Killed 2 In Past
"[I was] watching Dawn Brancheau interact at the end of the pool. She was lying down...face to face performing a 'relationship' session with our whale," he wrote in his statement. "I then noticed immediately that he bit down on a piece of her hair. Within the span of 2 seconds she was pulled into the pool, unable to get her hair released from his mouth. I immediately sounded the alarm..."
Chahine Kish also attested to how quickly events turned. "I was cleaning up my section and watching Dawn the trainer play w/Tilly [the whale]. She was running along side of him. I looked down at my table, then up again and she was gone."
Kish quickly realized what had happened. "I saw Tilly surface with a trainer in his mouth. He was becoming frantic himself."
Killed SeaWorld Trainer Believed in Trust Relationship with Whales
Shortly after the alarms sounded, the guests were quickly evacuated from the site. One senior animal trainer at the Sea Lions and Otter Stadium related that once they restrained the whale his "mouth had to be pryed [sic] open" to retrieve Brancheau.
Anthony Sharp, a paramedic for SeaWorld Orlando, said medical responders to the scene pronounced Brancheau dead. Echoed medic Thomas Tobin: "monitor rhythm and wounds inconsistent with life."
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Whale Advocate Blames Sea World For Trainer's Death
