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An Indiana woman was found dead this week with a massive python wrapped around her neck in a house that 140 snakes call home.<\/p>\n
Laura Hurst, 36, was found dead in Oxford, Indiana on Wednesday by Benton County Sheriff Don Munson. Not only did Munson own the house, which was set up specifically to house snakes, but he also lives next door, according to the\u00a0Lafayette Journal & Courier<\/em>.<\/p>\n
Munson discovered Hurst, who kept her snakes at the house, at 8:51 p.m. on Wednesday, an Indiana State Police spokesperson told the outlet. Hurst was found with an eight-foot reticulated python around her neck, and while the snake was able to be extracted from Hurst, she was unresponsive.<\/p>\n
Reticulated pythons are native to rainforests in Southeast Asia, and can weigh up to 350 pounds and grow upward of 25 feet long, according to the\u00a0Wildlife Learning Center.<\/p>\n
While authorities could not say Thursday whether the snake was responsible for Hurst\u2019s cause of death, Indiana State Police spokesperson Sgt. Kim Riley told the\u00a0Journal & Courier<\/em>\u00a0that she appeared \u201cto have been strangled by the snake.\u201d<\/p>\n
An autopsy has been scheduled for Friday, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
While no humans permanently live in the snake house, owned by Munson, 140 of the slithering reptiles were reportedly being held there. Of those 140, 20 belonged to Hurst, who visited the house \u201cabout twice a week,\u201d according to police,\u00a0CNN reported.<\/p>\n
Riley added to CNN that Hurst was \u201capparently there checking on her snakes. For whatever reason, she apparently got the snake out and she was doing what people do with snakes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hurst\u2019s divorce attorney, Marcel Katz, told the\u00a0Journal & Courier<\/em>\u00a0that Hurst loved her snakes so much that possession of the reptiles was brought up during the divorce negotiations.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe had a real passion for snakes. That was a big issue for her,\u201d Katz told the outlet.<\/p>\n
While it was not immediately clear if permits are required to own reticulated pythons in Indiana, or if Munson had one, the state\u00a0bans\u00a0the collection of endangered species, box turtles and eggs of reptiles and amphibians.<\/p>\n
The Benton County Sheriff\u2019s Department and Munson did not immediately respond to PEOPLE\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n
An Indiana woman was found dead this week with a massive python wrapped around her neck in a house that 140 snakes call home. Laura Hurst, 36, was found dead in Oxford, Indiana on Wednesday by Benton County Sheriff Don Munson. Not only did Munson own the house, which was set up specifically to house […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":735683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"yoast_head":"\n
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