🐕 "She knew that her boyfriend had taken an overdose. She waited over an hour before calling for help, leaving a 22-month-old girl to die."
In this disturbing case, a killer thought she could use a family pet as a scapegoat to escape justice. She placed hairs from the household dog into the mouth of the child she had smothered and then raised the alarm, blaming the animal for the death [citation:7]. She maintained this false story for some time, telling it to the child's mother, the ambulance service, and even to police officers when they first arrived. The lie unraveled during her formal police interview, where she eventually abandoned the story and confessed. The dog did not save her—it just added a layer of cruelty to an already horrific crime.