When Fran Wiley first heard about Cocaine Bear, she was shocked, and not in a pleasant way. “I don’t believe in promoting anything that hurts families and destroys families,” she says.
Keri RussellThe actual cocaine bear expired after it had absorbed just about three or four grams of cocaine in its bloodstream, though it may have eaten more. The drugs had been dropped by a plane smuggling hundreds of pounds of the drug from South America.
By December 1985, Wiley had been promoted to assistant agent in charge of GBI’s drug office. She got a call from a game ranger alerting her of a dead bear in Fannin County. “They said, ‘We’ve got a hunter up here who found a dead bear. There’s a parachute and a duffle bag, and we think y’all should come up.”“The necropsy by the pathologist showed that the bear [absorbed] about three, four grams of cocaine, and that’s how she expired,” says Wiley.
Thornton, nicknamed “Slick,” was a former police officer who had gone rogue and become an eccentric drug smuggler. When his body was discovered, he was wearing Army fatigues, “When [Thornton] jumped out of the plane, he either hit himself on the plane or knocked himself out, because the [main] parachute did not open,” says Wiley. The situation confounded both experts and those who knew Thornton; he had been an Army paratrooper who, according to Denton, “had jumped more than a thousand times into situations considerably more complex and dangerous.” It seemed to be a case of bad luck and judgment.
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