Man Found Dead in House Full of Caged Snakes: Official Cause of Death Finally Determined
Early this year when a man in Pomfret, Maryland, realized he hadn’t seen his neighbor the day before, he went over just to make sure things were OK. When he looked through a window, he saw the man had collapsed. First…
Early this year when a man in Pomfret, Maryland, realized he hadn’t seen his neighbor the day before, he went over just to make sure things were OK. When he looked through a window, he saw the man had collapsed.
First responders arrived, entered the house and pronounced the 49-year-old man dead — and they were greeted by a rather unusual collection.
The house didn’t have much furniture, but it did contain 124 snakes.
Pythons, rattlesnakes, cobras, black mambas and more — and not all of them were legal. One Burmese python was 14 feet long.
“Our chief animal control officer said in his more than 30 years of experience, he had not encountered this kind of thing before,” county spokeswoman Jennifer Harris said, according to WRC-TV.
The man seemed to be an experienced snake owner.
“They were all very properly secured,” Harris said. “They were racked. He did not keep a lot of furniture inside the home, so there was no place if a snake, for example, were to escape where it could hide or harm anybody.”
No snakes were found loose, so what had caused the man’s Death?