
The brutal attack had caused her to lose half of her blood and she would later undergo a face transplant. They sprung into action, and managed to save her life. They assumed that Charla, who was a mass of bloodied flesh with no recognisable facial features slumped in a pool of her own blood, was dead - until she moved. Like something from a horror film, "strips of flesh and scalp" had been flung around the yard of Sandra's Stamford, Connecticut, home. When paramedics arrived on the scene they were unable to decipher the victim's gender due to the severity of the wounds.Ĭharla hides her injuries - but she has never seen her reflection after the attack (Image: ©Five) The gunshots are heard in the background of Sandra's breathless 911 call. He ran back in to the house, and collapsed dead on his special bed, leaving a trail of blood behind him. He opened one of their patrol car's doors and lunged at an officer.ĭespite being shot four times at point blank range Travis didn't die. When police arrived, Travis was in a frenzy of bloodlust. "He looked at me like, ‘Mom, what did you do?’” It wasn't working, so I went and I had to get a knife - and I stabbed him. Sandra said: “I grabbed the shovel and hit him with the shovel to stop it. She recalled how he turned around and looked at her, before she ran for her life and locked herself in her car.


Grisly injuries of man mutilated and killed by pet hippo he swam with and rode like horse.

