OXFORD, Ind. (CBS) — A woman was found dead with an 8-foot python around her neck Wednesday night at a northwest Indiana home filled with 140 snakes.
Indiana State Police said, shortly before 9 p.m., state troopers and Benton County Sheriff’s officers responded to a 911 call about an unresponsive woman with a reticulated python on the floor wrapped around her neck at a home in Oxford, about two hours southeast of Chicago.
Paramedics attempted to revive 36-year-old Laura Hurst, but were unsuccessful, police said.
Police said there were 140 snakes in the home, about 20 of them belonging to Hurst, who visited the home about twice a week before she died.
The home was registered to the Benton County, Indiana Sheriff, so no one lives there. It is actually set up to house snakes.
The reticulated python, native to Southeast Asia, is considered the longest snake in the world and can weigh in at 350 pounds.
An autopsy was scheduled for Friday to determine how Hurst died.
