Authorities in Orange County, Calif., said a California man’s alleged brutal murder of his pregnant dog was “pure evil”
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- A California man faces up to 13 years in state prison if convicted on charges related to the brutal execution of his pregnant 6-year-old Maltese dog
- Authorities allege Eric Lyn Holliday killed his dog by tying a rope to a parking bollard and his SUV before wrapping the rope around the dog’s neck and accelerating the vehicle to snap its neck
- Holliday, 58, is accused of then leaving the animal in an alley before police later used security footage to track him down and arrest him
California authorities claimed this week that there’s “a special place in hell” for an Orange County man accused of brutally killing a pregnant 6-year-old Maltese earlier this month, as the man now faces charges in the dog’s death.
“Only someone who is pure evil could engage in such reprehensible conduct,” Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said in a statement this week, announcing multiple felony charges against Eric Lyn Holliday.
Holliday, 58, is accused of killing his dog by tying a rope from his SUV to a parking bollard, looping it around the animal’s neck, and “driving until the animal’s neck had been snapped,” Spitzer alleged…