A woman was found dead with a large python coiled around her neck. On Wednesday night Laura Hurst was discovered unresponsive in a home with a large python wrapped around her neck. Benton County Sheriff Don Munson, who owns the house, found the 36-year-old and moved quickly to take the reticulated python off her.

Sadly he was too late. Ms Hurst was known to have kept a large number of pet snakes at Sheriff Munson’s home in Battle Ground, Indiana.

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