Posted: 15:48, November 9, 2022 | Updated: 16:17, November 9, 2022
A Kentucky woman has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for murder after she encouraged her fighting pit bull to maul a man as she sat on top of him and attacked him. Melissa Wolke, 40, pleaded guilty to murdering 55-year-old auto repairman Donald Abner with whom she lived in Conway, Kentucky at the time of the brutal murder. Police were called around 3 a.m. on January 10, 2020, by a neighbor who heard fighting and arrived to find Wolke on top of Abner, beating him as the pit bull bit his head and face. The neighbor told police they heard her say to the dog, “Good boy, get him.” State troopers said when they arrived at the home on Pug Lane in Rockcastle County, just off U.S. Highway 25, they were forced to shoot the dog dead. He later broke down in an interview with police, repeatedly saying: “My God, I made him blush.” Medical examiners who performed an autopsy on Abner determined that he died at the scene of asphyxiation. He also had a broken bone in his neck and bite marks on his face and head. Melissa Wolke, 40, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for murder after she encouraged her fighting pit bull to maul a man as they fought outside their Kentucky home. Abner worked as an auto body repairman before he was attacked by Walke and her dog in 2020. He was 55 when he died Kentucky State Police Detective Ryan Loudermilk testified in court that a neighbor of Walke’s said he heard the sounds of a party just hours before the attack. He also said he heard gunshots in the previous weeks, but didn’t know what they were shooting. The neighbor said he recorded the attack on his phone but deleted the video because it made him “sick” – officers were unable to retrieve the video. Police said officers arrived at the scene in Conway, Kentucky and found Melissa Walke assaulting her neighbor Donald Abner The home in Rockcastle County, Kentucky, where Donald Abner, 55, was killed by a pit bull “She appeared to have blood on her hands and feet and had a large clump of hair on her hands that was consistent with the victim’s hair,” police said in a report at the time. The dog had bitten the man multiple times on the face and head, Trooper Scottie Pennington told WDKY. He said they had no choice but to shoot the dog since Wolke wouldn’t tell him to back off. The court heard Wolke had a history of alcohol abuse and had tried to quit for some time. He suggested he had a history of tanning when he drank. When investigators searched the home after the attack, they found no signs of a fight, only an empty liquor bottle.
