Word: knoller
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INDICTED. MARJORIE KNOLLER, 45, and ROBERT NOEL, 59; for involuntary manslaughter and keeping a mischievous animal that caused a person's death; in San Francisco. In January two attack dogs in Knoller and Noel's care mauled a neighbor to a grisly death in the hallway of the couple's apartment building. Knoller, who was present during the attack, is also charged with second-degree murder...
Bane was put down shortly thereafter (Hera is still awaiting her fate), but it was the dogs' owners, Robert Noel and Marjorie Knoller, who attracted most of the attention. It was later revealed that they had a close relationship with Paul ("Cornfed") Schneider, an Aryan supremacist, accomplished knife fighter and crayon artist serving a life term in California's maximum-security Pelican Bay prison. According to prison authorities, Schneider--who covers his cell with pictures of furry animals--has been directing the raising of attack dogs from behind bars. Noel and Knoller got their pets from one of Schneider...
...English mastiff and Canary Island cattle dog, which as a purebred was considered so dangerous that Spain outlawed the Canario in the 1930s, nearly causing its extinction. Were the two dogs trained to kill? And if so, did the couple know what they were capable of? Noel and Knoller denied any culpability in an unusual, 18-page letter faxed to local district attorney Terence Hallinan. In it Noel described Bane--whose name literally means "death"--as "a really gentle animal" and Hera as "a neighborhood favorite." He claimed that Knoller tried to hold the dogs back during the attack...
There are no other witnesses to corroborate that account, but Hallinan is skeptical. For one thing, Knoller "does not have bruises or bites"; for another, he says, the letter's account contradicts some of what she told police right after the attack. "There could be an argument for second-degree murder," says Hallinan. Nevertheless, he expects Noel will fight him all the way: "He's a pretty litigious...