Melissa Wolke plead guilty in October to the Jan. 2020 killing of Donald Abner.
A Kentucky woman was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Monday after admitting to ordering her pit bull to attack a man, resulting in his death.
Melissa Wolke, 40, of Conway, pleaded guilty in October to the Jan. 10, 2020 killing of Donald Abner, 55. Authorities testified that Wolke’s neighbor saw her assaulting Abner at her home while saying “Good boy, get him,” to her pit bull, and called the police,The neighbor allegedly captured part of the attack on video, which they later deleted because it made them “sick to watch.”. She also refused to call off the pit bull, a former fighting dog named Denali, even after police arrived.
“The way I look at it, she used her animal, a pit bull, as a weapon to help her in this altercation,” Kentucky State Police Trooper Scottie Pennington
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