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Preliminary autopsy results show she did not die from any medical condition or from a canine attack
Author: Raegan Gibson, Cory McCord, Michelle Choi
Published: 4:22 PM CST November 25, 2019
Updated: 7:02 PM CST November 25, 2019

ANAHUAC, Texas — A 59-year-old caretaker found dead Sunday morning outside of a home in Anahuac was attacked and killed by wild hogs according to the autopsy.

The autopsy results showed the cause of death as 'exsanguination due to feral hog assault,' meaning she bled to death.

Chambers County Sheriff Brian Hawthorne said it's a "very rare incident," and less than 6 of these deaths have been reported in the U.S.

Hawthorne said the family she was caring for have about 10 or 12 acres, and "the feral hogs have taken over some of their family land."

Authorities said the body of Christine Rollins, of Liberty, was found in the front yard of a home in the 4000 block of State Highway 61. Rollins was the caretaker of an elderly couple who lives at the home, authorities said.

When Rollins didn't show up to the home at the normal time, the 84-year-old homeowner went outside and found her body in the yard between her vehicle and the front door, investigators said.

She had multiple injuries to her body, including a head injury consistent with a fall as well as "numerous injuries that appear to be animal-related," according to authorities.

She had been taking care of the family for more than a year according to Hawthorne.

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"I want to especially send my condolences to the Rollins family. It's unbelievably tragic," Hawthorne said.

Sheriff says wild hogs have been a problem in the area and a lot of neighbors have called complaining the animals were tearing up their front yards.

The sheriff’s office has even put out traps to see if they can trap one.

The sheriff says wild hogs are dangerous, travel in packs, but they're rampant in Texas. If folks do encounter one, it's best to stay away, and call Texas Parks & Wildlife officials.
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Damn.

Here’s hoping there was some other cause of death, no one deserves to go out that way.

Foul critters, I always go armed in the woods around here, there’s a bunch.

Mayor of Monahans Texas was attacked and nearly killed years ago by one when he left his gun to go behind some bushes to drop an Obama on a dove hunt.

Free range domestic hogs will come running when someone takes a crap, they eat it.

You forgot about Piglosi, Hillary and Zero, Birdy. Sheesh.

Surprised it hasn’t happened more often.

I had a student who lived in a house abutting a wooded creek bed. They had a Rottweiler chained up in back, hogs would come up looking for dog food. According to her a big boar killed the dog one day and the hogs ate it. All they found was the head attached to a section of vertebrae.

I see your good Governor signed the bill to remove about all restrictions regarding killing the hogs, including no license necessary.

The cost of the hunts still keep me here. If they were less expensive I think many guys would go to TX to kill a bunch of the vermin. However, I hear that all the hunting does little if any good in reducing populations and their destruction.

I wish I could afford to "help".

The cost of the hunts keep the hogs there as well. As long as there is a market to hunt them, they won’t be eradicated no matter how much damage they do.

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Like hell!

................. Trap some hogs and ship them to San Francisco.........

Actually, if you ever speak with Vietnam POWs, that is their preferred method to get rid of Jane Fonda....

PETA may object to that idea.

Good Lord... I've heard that there's even some of 'em around here but I've never seen, nor encountered one anywhere yet.. DNR sez we can shoot 'em on sight w/o some permit.. Mighty white of 'em..

Lots of the bastards around my house and tins on my deer lease in Burnet

Killed 3 last time i went to the deer lease.

Night vision seems to be the best way to get a lot of them.

One day i will have a thermal sight.

A pet peeve of mine is people saying it is too expensive to hunt hogs. When I take anyone out on my leased properties (paid for by me) I spend around $50. on gas, I have to be on the properties with them to protect my stock and make sure they don't shoot anything they shouldn't. So that means I have to drive 150 miles, stay up all night and drive home another 150 miles. Not to mention maintaining the feeders which hold 240 pounds of corn (also paid for by me) and typically I clean the pigs that are shot. Add to this pigs do not run on a routine, meaning generally they do not come when the feeders throw corn and on any given night they may be somewhere else. For some dickweed to say $125. to $150. for a day hunt is too much shows they are cheap thoughtless jerks.

Out of the kindness of your heart. You should furnish all the amenities and should let them hunt for free. 🙄
Hasbeen

Jeezus! Maybe they just aint got the money!

Hah! I'll get right on babysitting no hunting yankees for free!

Do you happen to know how much that one weighed in at?

Looks about the same weight class as the one that menaced me.

The REALLY big ones resemble rhinoceroses in proportion, head looks small relative to the body, long flat back, I figure from domestic hog ancestry.

.

i'll guess about 180

LOL.... That's the hog everyone guessed the weight on awhile back.

I happen to know exactly what he weighed...

Hey dickweed...

Maybe this will help your condition.

You're the last type I would pay to hunt with or near.

Had to laugh when I read this. My BIL's BIL has a ranch in east Texas. He gets visited by hogs on a rotation and they do a lot of damage on the nights they come. He's got a day job and so do his boys so the only time they take the time to maintain their feeders is during deer season.

One day I walked the property with my BIL and did some calculating on what it would take for me to drive out there and get the place ready myself to kill some pigs and I soon came to the realization that - apart from the money involved in getting there and back home again, the cost of putting out feed and new batteries for the feeders and whatever else I'd need to do - I'd be there for weeks getting the pigs habituated to coming on to the property more often than they do - and it would hardly leave me with any time to shoot them.

Winner winner, chicken dinner!

Oh good, now I don’t feel like so much of a sissy (180 lb boar? Phhhhhhht!I ain’t skeered)

The photo I took of that boar that didn’t wanna give ground to me are being held for ransom on pbucket, I’ll see if I can retrieve em.

How would feral hogs do against timber wolves?

Wild boar and wolves coexisted for centuries in Europe and across Asia, both were known to kill and eat humans on occasion.

Pigs run in packs of related sows and they all run in to attack when a piglet squeals. Boars are solitary and territorial.

first of all I grew up in texas and I know some of you guys actually shoot hogs from time to time. Its kinda funny most guys (my texas friends) consider themselves hunters. so here is a conversation. "so you guys got hogs down there?" oh yes! we have lots of them. then I say "well when was the last time you shot one?" crickets, There is no answer. or its maybe oh I went with my cousin on so and so's property 4 years ago and saw one run in the trees my cousin missed it. If texas didn't have so much private land the hogs would all be dead. Where I live, the hunters would cure the hog problem in about 2 days if they ever started living in this area and the fish and game classed them as a non game animal.

We have a winner!

I see your ignorance has not solved itself since the last time I read a few of your posts.

We need tigers, but they are gonna have to be big fuggin’ tigers....




.....might be significant she chooses a boar, and not a pack of sows.

Leopard getting its mass kicked by group of angry sows....

I’m gonna guess most predation in their original Old World range falls on the boars. Perhaps younger ones.

I have worked in various parts of East Texas for too many years to remember.
Several years ago, a man near Pennington, Texas told me about an event that
occurred about 1905 on some land which he owned at the time of his story.
Several members of an extended family lived in the same large frame house.
Seems the self appointed "Bell Cow" of the family was a difficult person to
get along with and ended up making true enemies of all the brothers, cousins,
and others living in the house. Somehow a shotgun accidently fired and she
died the same night. Knowing the Sheriff would be coming out, she was
moved to the barn,quartered and fed to the hogs. High Sheriff did investigate;
there was nothing left of Aunt Jane; all family members had alibis and nobody
went to jail. Or so the story went.

Funny post!

Bruce is neither. He once took me out quail hunting all day, to his favorite spot, using his own gas, and walked the brush to push birds to me.

luv2safari is simply a fine guy, and you took his post the wrong way.

Well then he took my post wrong also, when I quoted him originally I was using the term "dickweed" generally to cover the hoards that want to use my properties for free, have little night hunting experience, leave trash all over the place, can't tell a feral hog from a calf and don't leave gates like they found them. Just because feral hogs are a nuisance doesn't mean some $#!thead with a rifle might not be a far larger issue. If he had ever had to deal with "dude" hunters he would know what I am talking about. Unless you are running a hog breeding/canned hunt setup there is very little money in trying to set up clients for a shot at some hogs. I let my friends hunt hogs whenever they want as I know there won't be some big issue like one of them closing a gate and shutting down water access to my cows. They usually put a few bags of corn in the feeders and bring good bourbon too.

Yep, crossfire happens. Looks like I read it the wrong way, too.

BTW, I agree with your definition of "dickweed".

I grew up about 25 miles from there! We were on a deer lease 10 miles north of Devers ( about halfway) .When I was 16yrs old, they changed the stock law, and people could no longer "run hogs" in the woods ( ear marked) unless they owned the property. Any hogs "left" after a certain date, were considered "feral" and open season. Deer Leases on paper company land were the norm in most of East Texas, since they are the biggest land owners, as a rule. But now, 50yrs later...people are just now figuring out how dangerous those things are, and how destructive they are. They can be very difficult to get rid of too! The smaller ones are exceptionally good on the BBQ. However, if you "eat all you want" of it ( we called it "green pork" i.e fresh pork) you WILL be able to crap through the eye of a needle from across the room! Am I right, Hanco and Rick?

Hah! I don't see us getting rid of them as they are pretty smart and mostly nocturnal. As for destructive mostly for me they don't cause a lot of problems since I hardly farm anything other than food plots but the pigs can dig them up for sure. As for the eye of the needle I seem to be ok but my brother in law......... For some reason I guess being in my 60's I always called them feral hogs, sort of thinking it is funny to call them "Wild Boars". I remember waking up one morning on some timber company land in Anderson county after an evening of a bit of Rebel Yell bourbon, getting out of the tent and the whole area around camp was tilled by feral hogs! I mean duckfeet followed by discs pulled behind a tractor couldn't have done a better job. I have to take a leak so I walk maybe 15 feet to a tree and on the other side another ten feet is a huge hog. Soon as I start whizzing he takes off and ten minutes later a solid fog rolls in. For 2 hours we can't see more than 15 feet but we can hear hogs all around us. I loved that place. Killed my first archery buck there, several years later a hunting club leased it and that was that.

My 7 year old grand daughter and I were at the farm checking the cows yesterday when we got a call notifying me that our security alarm had gone off at the house 3 miles away. On the way to the house she asked me if I was going to shoot them if someone was robbing the house. I replied "probably". She said "well good, then we can feed them to the hogs".

Sounds like a Bayou Girl to me! ha Between the Gators and the hogs...no body, no crime. Ha

The only good pig is a dead pig!!

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That's a skinny boar!

'Baiting is hard work and such a tedious bother, i'd hardly have time to shoot the baited animals'

Holy fugk

It was very dry all summer, cows,deer, all look poor. We got some rain at the end of summer. We have a bumper acorn crop, ground under live oaks covered with acorns. Live oaks on this place are every 25 feet, so they should fatten up. Bumper pecan crop in creek bottom too. Nothing moving much, they don’t have far to go for food.

I couldn’t help but chortle reading this thread and the other thread on the subject at hand. Thought of the parallels in the mathematical numbers between hunters "killing off the hogs" and hunters "decimating the buffalo". An interesting dichotomy.

Hog shooting/hunting must be part of Texans GNP. Corn, gas, meat processing......

I feel sorry for the guys who has crops and property ruined by hogs though. The greedy $300 a day guys, not so much.

There is very little of that lease that isn’t rooted up.