Dog injected with antifreeze, another stabbed
Pittsburgh, PA (US)Incident Date: Friday, Apr 2, 2010
County: Allegheny
Disposition: Alleged
Alleged: Deborah Kyles
Case Updates: 1 update(s) available
Police are searching for a Sheraden woman who they said poisoned and stabbed her two small dogs, then went to great lengths to pin their deaths on those close to her.
Deborah S. Kyles, 52, will be charged with two counts of animal cruelty and filing false reports to police in the April deaths of her Chihuahua, Souljaboy, and her Pomeranian, Daisie.
Ms. Kyles' children told police their mother was mentally ill, "thrives on attention," and might be responsible for the past disappearances of other dogs, according to a criminal complaint. She had been in a long feud with her children, and wrote in a suicidal note that she hated them and wished them misery. Police said they found the torn-up note when they searched her trash for evidence.
She called officers to her Fusion Street home early in the morning on April 29 and told them she found Souljaboy dead and wrapped in a plastic bag in the back of her daughter's boyfriend's pickup truck. She said she had been looking for the dog all night, at one point enlisting the help of a neighbor.
The dog had been "hogtied," Officer Christine Luffey said, with plastic bags tied over its head. Officers found antifreeze and other items along with its corpse.
Ms. Kyles told Officer Luffey she was certain her daughter's boyfriend, James Allgeier, killed the dog and that she wondered why he hadn't been arrested. Her daughter, Candice Rumble, told police Mr. Allgeier was with her that night and she believed that her mother had killed the dog.
Veterinarians who performed a necropsy on Souljaboy found three puncture wounds on its side, where it appeared to be injected with antifreeze. On May 4, the same day, police were again called to Ms. Kyles' house for reports of another dead dog. A neighbor called 911 because a flower pot had been thrown at his house, which police later determined was a ploy by Ms. Kyles to call attention to Daisie, the Pomeranian lying in the middle of her yard beside a knife. A bag was tied around the dog's muzzle and its legs had been bound with rope.
When she spoke with officers, they noticed Ms. Kyles was "sobbing but no tears were shed," the complaint says. They believed that she "set the scene and killed her own dog," even as she insisted they arrest her son Justin Rumble, who told officers his mother didn't like her dogs.
She was mad at Souljaboy for urinating in her house; Daisie, he said, was too high-strung.
He also told police his mother worked as a nurse and that her house was full of medical supplies, including syringes. Both Mr. Rumble and Mr. Allgeier told officers they repeatedly tried to help Ms. Kyles and wanted her to "finally be held accountable for her actions and stop trying to ruin people's lives."
When Officer Luffey asked Ms. Kyles to submit to a polygraph test last week, she replied, "I'm waiting for you to arrest me," the complaint says. "My kids drove me to do this."
Read more: clear="all"> Case UpdatesPittsburgh police said a Sheraden woman has surrendered on charges that she killed her two dogs and tried to pin their deaths on her son and another man.
Deborah Kyles, 52, surrendered Friday morning, a day after police charged her with two counts of animal cruelty and one count of filing false police reports.
Police said Kyles bound, suffocated and injected a Chihuahua with antifreeze in April. Investigators said Kyles told them she found the dog in the back of her daughter's boyfriend's truck.
A second dog was discovered May 4 in her back yard after a neighbor called police. The Pomeranian had been stabbed, its head covered in a plastic bag and its legs bound.
Police said Kyles insisted her son and her daughter's boyfriend be arrested, but said she eventually confessed, giving police a statement that said, “My so-called rotten kids made me do it.”
Channel 11 News was there as police surrounded Kyles’ home Thursday on Fusion Street in an attempt to arrest her. However, she wasn’t there. She faces two charges of animal cruelty and one count of filing false police reports.
Three other dogs inside her home were turned over to her daughter for safe keeping.
“There's a saying, ‘Every dog has his day.’ Today is Deborah Kyles' day,” said Pittsburgh police Officer Christine Luffey.
Investigators said there is no real motive for the crimes other than Kyles’ desire to incriminate her children. | Source: WPXI - June 18, 2010
Update posted on Jun 18, 2010 - 12:50PM |
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