No this is not a headline from the National Inquirer. It is the buzz in all the legit papers around the country. How could a woman Sandra Herold, own a 200 pound chimp and sleep in the same bed with him. Then that same chimp attack one of her friends leaving her for dead. Some say the Chimp wore a diaper at night to catch is poop others say he wore the diaper to hold in place his rather large penis. What we can say for certain is that the victim Charla Nash is lucky to be alive.
Stamford police say they are taking their time before deciding whether the woman who raised a chimpanzee that mauled her friend on Monday will face criminal charges.
It remains unclear what charges 70-year-old Sandra Herold could face in the attack at her North Stamford home by her 14-year-old, 200-pound pet named Travis.
But the day after the victim, 55-year-old Charla Nash, was transferred to an Ohio hospital famous for a facial transplant, police continued to look into prescription antidepressant Xanax and its role in the case. They say Herold admitted in her first statements after the attack that she gave Travis the drug to calm him before Nash arrived at her Rockrimmon Road house.
Herold called Nash to help bring the chimpanzee back inside after he had let himself out, police have said. When Nash arrived, he attacked her, ripping off most of her face and damaging her hands, according to 911 tapes and doctors' reports.
Herold speculated that Travis was being protective of her and attacked Nash because she had a different hairstyle, was driving a different car and held a stuffed toy in front of her face to get the chimp's attention.
Herold later said she did not give Xanax to Travis. It is not clear whether giving the animal the drug is a crime, nor whether it sparked the attack.
But the administration of the drug, if not itself a crime, is part of what the courts would have to investigate in determining whether