Coroner Pam Boman’s phone kept blowing up Wednesday with people wondering if there had been some sort of mass murder due to all the law enforcement and other vehicles on Coulter Drive.
Actually, the commotion was over what could have been a simple animal rescue that turned out to be anything but simple.
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