The Internet Loved Watching Her Rescue Foxes… Until the Attacks That Ended Her Life (2 of 2)

Then she was found dead on her property in Faribault, Minnesota. Her death is officially ruled a suicide by hanging. In a video announcing it, her husband said he performed CPR on her for 15 minutes before paramedics arrived. He called the loss “unimaginable” and vowed to carry on her work—over his grief, over the anger and conflict she left behind.

Now the rescue world is reeling. Some supporters ask: was she betrayed by those she thought were allies? Were the methods she used too controversial? Was she simply too outspoken for her own good? The online communities that once cheered her began to debate: Did her methods deserve criticism—or was the backlash part of a darker pattern of tearing down vulnerable women in activism?

Her legacy will be entangled in both heroism and controversy. Hundreds of foxes she saved still roam sanctuaries she built. Her name lives in social platforms, in memorials, in the outrage sparked by her death. But the question now pressing across forums, comment threads, and rescue circles is this:

What unseen cruelty lured a woman who gave her life for animals into darkness… and who among us pushed her too far…?