Killing Italian greyhounds became “vicious cycle,” friend testifies
Shortly before his arrest, medical student Andrew David Thompson told a friend that killing Italian greyhound puppies became a “vicious cycle,” according to testimony at Thompson’s preliminary hearing.
Thompson said he would get frustrated with the dogs, “punish them, and go too far,” Robert Albers, testified Thursday. “I believe he described it like a vicious cycle he couldn’t get out of.”
Thompson, who has been suspended from Michigan State University’s osteopathic medicine school, killed at least 12 Italian greyhound puppies between September 2010 and June, according to prosecutors.
Also testifying yesteray was Deputy Jodi LeBombard, seen in the Lansing State Journal video above.
She said Thompson told her he killed one of the dogs, Bentley, after he urinated in his bed, by throwing him against the wall. He disposed of Bentley, like the others, by putting him in a trash bag and tossing him in a Dumpster.
Thompson will stand trial in Ingham County Circuit Court on a total of 13 felony counts of animal killing or torture and one misdemeanor count of animal cruelty — ten of them in connection with dogs allegedly killed at his apartment in Okemos.
Thompson also is charged in a separate case with killing or torturing three dogs at an East Lansing condominium, where he lived for about a month last September. A preliminary hearing in that case was held last week.
(To see all our posts about this case, click here.)
Posted by jwoestendiek August 5th, 2011 under Muttsblog, videos.
Tags: andrew david thompson, animal cruelty, cruelty to animals, east lansing, ingham county, italian greyhounds, killed, lansing, medical student, michigan, michigan state university, murdered, okemos, preliminary hearing, testimony, video
Comments
Comment from smoketoomuch
Time August 8, 2011 at 11:56 am
You have to ask yourself: “Is it really possible to be so completely clueless, that you would repeatedly murder a dozen or more I.G. puppies, over such a short period of time, for the same offense?”
Either this guy is seriously mentally deficient or there is something else, far worse, going on here.
Either way – “WOW”, just wow. I’m still shaking my head in disbelief.
I guess he never stopped to consider just how lucky HE was that his mother didn’t feel (and react) the same way with him as he did with those poor innocent dogs.
If ever a case called for some serious investigation followed by some even more serious incarceration, this is it.
Comment from Anne w/ an e
Time August 10, 2011 at 10:40 am
This is a serious disturbed individual that should never be allowed to persue a medical career. I hope that he is haunted by the memory of what he did to these poor innocent pups. Hauntedby their cries of pain and their pleading eyes questioning why???
Comment from Chris
Time August 10, 2011 at 6:29 pm
I own three IGs. They are super sensitive dogs. Those pups probably could sense his temperment instantly and tried their best to avoid him. I’ve seen fosters dogs come from homes where kids just played to rough with them. It takes a year for them to trust people again. This story makes me sick, especially considering how incredibly loving, loyal and sensitive IG are.
Comment from Alex
Time August 6, 2011 at 4:19 pm
I used to go to phx Christian hs w this dude , wow