That lady sounds like she has a bright future as a female serial killer. That she kept the fur of her victims in envelopes is telling, many serial killers keep tokens of their victims as well.

Why would she tell them about it?

Either way, that's really sad and disturbing. Imagine thinking you help all these animals by taking them to her, and later finding out she was killing them all. Horrible.

That's one of the saddest and most disturbing things I've heard in a long time. If she left a note saying what she'd like to be buried with, you can bet she's off committing suicide somewhere. And it's probably for the best. *shrug*

*crys now*

I hate these stories, but they're all over. There was this woman in my city that runs a rescue group, and it turned out she was neglecting all her animals and they were dying horrible emaciated deaths. Of course the real core problem is the growing stray animal/abandoned pets situation. Get to the root of this problem and stories of shelters euthanizing thousands of cats and raids on rescue organizations will not be as common.

The fact that she kept souveniers really does frighten me, and she drowned them in a crate. Definately major issues that should warn society at large about her.

As for Ank's question about telling someone, two theories - one is the guilt one, the other is the attention. She's in the news, can be reading about herself now. She's the talk of many, including us here. People came to give her cats, now she's wanted for other reasons. She gets her 15 minutes.

What the hell did people think she did with the 650 animals they gave her?

They probly thought that she was rehoming them. At least that is what I would assume.