Chaffee County Sheriff's OfficeSuzanne Morphew, the Colorado mom who went missing during a bike ride in 2020, was killed while under the influence of a powerful animal tranquilizer, a recently released autopsy found.Morphew’s death was ruled “homicide by undetermined means in the setting of butorphanol, azaperone, and medetomidine intoxication,” the Colorado Bureau of Investigation said in a release Monday. Butorphanol, azaperone, and medetomidine—also known as BAM—is an animal tranquilizer that can be used to sedate bears and deer, according to veterinary pharmaceuticals manufacturer NexGen and a study by the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Division.Authorities are still investigating the circumstances around Morphew’s death and disappearance. Her husband, Barry Morphew, was charged nearly a year later with her murder, which prosecutors alleged he’d done after he discovered she was having an affair. They claimed he’d shot her with a tranquilizer gun—which he’d admitted to using to sedate deer and remove their antlers—and tampered with evidence to cover up the crime.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Courtesy of IFC Films and ShudderMoviegoers are facing an extreme struggle when they go to the theater these days: waiting for the movie to actually start. Once you get through the first AMC advertisement and the half hour of trailers, you have to sit through another AMC advertisement and a Nicole Kidman short film. But perhaps the hardest challenge of all is sitting through an indie film’s opening crawl—that moment when a bajillion production companies you’ve never heard of appear on screen before the movie finally, finally starts.As irritating as this may be for an audience member, it turns out that it does take a village to make a non-studio produced/distributed movie. Such is the case with Late Night With the Devil, which recently broke Shudder’s all-time streaming record after going viral on TikTok for its bone-chilling premise and, yes, its neverending opening titles.All in all, there are nine company logos that appear before the horror actually starts. This TikTok shows all of the companies, and is littered with comments that compare the phenomenon to a very similar moment in Family Guy.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty ImagesJerry Seinfeld hit some right-wing favorite talking points over the weekend with his comments that political correctness from the “extreme left” is “policing” modern sitcoms and has led to their demise.In a new interview with the New Yorker ahead of his 70th birthday on Monday, the comedian explained his theory about why there’s no “funny stuff” to watch on TV anymore. “Nothing really affects comedy,” he said, “People always need it. They need it so badly and they don’t get it.” Instead of getting sitcoms like M*A*S*H, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and All in the Family, audiences miss out, he said, as a “result of the extreme left and P.C. crap, and people worrying so much about offending other people.”To get their comedy now, people are “going to see standup comics because we are not policed by anyone,” he continued, “The audience polices us. We know when we’re off track.” The comments set off a barrage of right-wing agreement, with anchors on the Fox News-competitor Newsmax reporting on his comments as “a great point.” Breitbart echoed the sentiment, tweeting, “He’s right.” And conservative commentator Benny Johnson shared the clip with the overheated caption, “This moment is powerful.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Borja Puig de la Bellacasa/ReutersA feverish five-day political drama in Spain finally came to an end Monday with Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s decision to remain in his role despite saying he was contemplating resigning over the launch of a corruption investigation into his wife.Socialist Sánchez last week said he was considering standing down after a court decided to permit a judicial probe into his spouse, Begoña Gómez. Sánchez, who has led Spain since 2018, slammed his opponents for launching a “harassment and bullying operation” and canceled his public duties while he considered his future.He also theatrically promised to make a statement announcing his final decision one way or the other on Monday. After a weekend of frenzied speculation about what would happen and a series of demonstrations around the country calling for him to stay, Sánchez announced in a speech that he would, in fact, be going nowhere.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Charly Triballeau/GettyAfter weeks of demonstrations, protests, and arrests, talks between student protesters and the administration at Columbia University have failed to produce a resolution, the university’s president Minouche Shafik said Monday.In a statement to the campus community, Shafik was firm that the university would not divest from Israel—the main goal of the student protest known as the “Gaza solidarity encampment”—and told the protesters to pack it up.“Since Wednesday, a small group of academic leaders has been in constructive dialogue with student organizers to find a path that would result in the dismantling of the encampment and adherence to University policies going forward. Regretfully, we were not able to come to an agreement,” Shafik said.Read more at The Daily Beast.

David ‘Dee’ Delgado/ReutersThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has launched an investigation into Ford’s BlueCruise hands-free driving technology after it was found to have been engaged during a pair of deadly crashes.Both of the fatal incidents involved electric Mustang Mach-E SUVs smashing into stationary vehicles, the NHTSA said in documents Monday. Both occurred in nighttime lighting conditions, the agency said, and “each incident resulted in at least one fatality.”BlueCruise is partially automated driver assistance software that can only be used on specific roadways. It uses cameras to make sure that drivers are still paying attention to the road when the system is in use.Read more at The Daily Beast.

DisneyBlue Ivy Carter might not appear in the first teaser for Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King, but she’s already stolen the show. It turns out that both Beyoncé and her daughter will appear in the film: Queen Bey will appropriately play the Lion King Mufasa’s wife, Queen Nala, reprising her role from 2019’s Lion King remake; and Blue Ivy will play Kiara—Simba’s heir. Neither of these characters makes a major appearance in the film’s first teaser, which Disney released Monday, but X users are already singing their excitement from the rooftops.Mufasa could help Blue Ivy break another record in show business. She already became the youngest woman to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2019, when she sang on Beyoncé’s “Brown Skin Girl” for the Lion King soundtrack at age seven. (Six-year-old Rumi Carter recently broke that record with a feature on the Cowboy Carter track “Protector.”) With this appearance as Kiara, Blue Ivy will technically become the youngest-ever Disney princess—that is, assuming lions count. Either way, folks are excited.Like most teasers, this roughly minute-long trailer doesn’t tell us much. Naturally, we get the usual Lion King opening music, and then Rafiki lets us know what we’re here for: “A lion was born without a drop of nobility in his blood, a lion who would change our lives forever.” (In case we didn’t know from the title, he also confirms that lion would be Mufasa, played by Aaron Pierre.) There are ice caves for some reason, there’s a lion cub running on the backs of hippos, and there’s a grown lion fleeing from an alligator’s gaping maw. The only thing conspicuously missing here would be a taste of the music; is this movie not a musical? I guess we’ll have to wait to hear some of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s tunes.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Millie PilkingtonKate Middleton’s ill-health was spotlighted again Monday, after she and her husband decided not to issue a new photograph to mark the anniversary of their wedding.Instead, the couple marked their 13th wedding anniversary by issuing a previously unseen photograph taken on their wedding day.The reluctance to issue a new photograph came as little surprise, Kate has asked for privacy as she undergoes preventative chemotherapy while recovering from cancer, although the decision may concern royal watchers hoping for a positive update on her health. Read more at The Daily Beast.

Andrew Milligan/Getty ImagesScotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf announced his resignation Monday in the latest setback for his Scottish National Party (SNP) and its goal of achieving Scottish independence from the rest of the United Kingdom.Yousaf, who became the country’s leader following Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation last year, stepped down ahead of votes of no confidence expected to play out later in the week. His downfall came directly as a result of his own decision to rip up a coalition deal with the Green Party following disagreements over emissions targets and the medical treatment of children with gender dysphoria.“After spending the weekend reflecting on what is best for my party, for the government and for the country I lead, I have concluded that repairing our relationship across the political divide can only be done with someone else at the helm,” Yousaf said in a resignation speech. He added that he would remain as first minister until a successor had been found and became visibly emotional as he paid tribute to his family for their support.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Alessandro Bianchi/ReutersActor Gérard Depardieu was taken into police custody in France on Monday after two women made accusations of sexual assault, local reports say.The claims against the 75-year-old relate to his alleged actions during the making of one film in 2014 and another in 2021, according to BFMTV. Depardieu has previously been accused by more than a dozen other women of sexual harassment and assault—he has consistently denied the allegations.One of the complaints about which the actor now faces questions relates to the making of The Green Shutters, which was released in 2022. The accuser, a 53-year-old set designer, alleges that Depardieu grabbed her with his legs and began touching her inappropriately. A witness allegedly stepped in to free the woman from his grasp.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Andrew Lichtenstein/Crobis via GettyWith no other Republican presidential candidates left in the race to regularly rib and ridicule, Donald Trump is apparently channeling his energy into taking down independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr.Amid GOP fears that Kennedy could end up siphoning crucial votes from Trump’s base in November, the former president issued a clarion call to his followers Sunday: “Don’t waste your Vote on Kennedy!”Writing on his Truth Social platform, Trump continued to push his favorite attack line that his vaccine-bashing rival is, in fact, a liberal extremist. “Why did Junior’s family go so bonkers at the thought of him running against Crooked Joe Biden?” Trump asked in a post Sunday. “Because they are Radical Left Lunatics, and they can’t conceive of their even more Liberal brother running as anything else?”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Lisa Maree Williams/Getty ImagesA group of teenagers in Australia discussed buying weapons and attacking Jewish people in the days after a bishop was stabbed in a church in Sydney, according to reports.Five adolescents were charged last week on multiple charges including conspiring to engage in or planning a terrorist act. The defendants—all between the ages of 14 and 17—belonged to a network that, according to police, also included the 16-year-old accused of stabbing the Assyrian Orthodox Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel during a livestreamed service in his church.According to a police fact sheet tendered to a local court, four of the teenagers charged last used the encrypted messaging app Signal to plan their attack, The Daily Telegraph reports. “I wanna die and I wanna kill … I’m just excited,” one 17-year-old allegedly wrote on April 20, five days after the church stabbing, later asking: “Is your plan to get caught or die or escape?”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastWhen Congress left for a week-long recess on April 20, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) had a message for her colleagues: Go home and listen to your constituents.It would be a harmless ask most of the time. But at that fraught moment, with the future of the House GOP on the line, Greene’s proposal landed more like an ultimatum.That same day, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had enraged conservatives by successfully pushing a $95 billion foreign aid package—with a huge tranche of support for Ukraine—through the House. Over half the House GOP conference voted against Ukraine aid.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/MGMLuca Guadagnino’s Challengers is a lot deeper than the “Zendaya-has-a-sexy-threesome” marketing would have had us believe. At its core, it’s a dark portrait of a woman grasping for a taste of her lost love (not a man, but tennis) by engaging in a frenetic, tactical game of back-and-forth (not tennis, but sex).After I saw a screening of Challengers, I left contemplating the film’s nuanced take on power and obsession—and, bizarrely, my mind kept drifting back to one specific T-shirt. The deceptively simple T-shirt—marl gray with I TOLD YA sprawled across the chest—appears three times on two different characters in Challengers. It has since been replicated on multiple occasions throughout the film's press tour, and today, Loewe has announced an entire “I TOLD YA” collection inspired by the shirt.What does it mean? Why is this shirt so significant? Could it perhaps hold the key to the film's complex dynamics? These are the questions keeping me up at night, so, I bring you something absolutely no one asked for: the ultimate deep dive into the I TOLD YA shirt from Challengers. I give you fair warning—this is a complicated, multi-layered sartorial journey and you might not like where we end up.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastThe U.S. intelligence and diplomatic community is helping to secure the Olympics in Paris this summer against possible terrorist threats, The Daily Beast has learned.The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), which provides imagery intelligence and geospatial data for planning and support of national security, is providing the Olympics planning committee with geospatial reference products. The NGA, for its part, has been working on the security preparations for two years, an official told The Daily Beast.A little known State Department-run group known as the Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) is also running point on security matters for some security operations in Paris. It provides both public and private streams of information on regional security for American private sector interests.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Everett CollectionWelcome to modern rom-com week at The Daily Beast’s Obsessed! In honor of two big romance releases this week—The Fall Guy and The Idea of You—we’re celebrating everything we love about the last 15 years of romantic comedies.It’s time to quit saying the studio romantic comedy is dead. Sure, rom-coms may not make hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office like they once did. But, realistically Hollywood will never kill the rom-com—it’ll always rise again.In just the past 15 years alone, the studio rom-com has evolved multiple times, from the work of relatable everyman Judd Apatow to the incessant glut of Adam Sandler flicks and Sydney Sweeney’s instant surprise success, to name a few iterations. It will continue to evolve and grow to suit new audiences, like any genre—and this year, it has been reborn again with the release of Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt’s action-rom-com The Fall Guy.Read more at The Daily Beast.

MaxAlright, ready those tomatoes and warm up your pitching arm because I’ve got something to say: Max’s Velma series is fantastic. In a world where people have some grace and proper consideration for new things, loving the adult-oriented spinoff about the Scooby-Doo franchise’s devoted brainiac wouldn’t be such an outrageous take. But, much to my chagrin, we don’t live in that universe.Most people actively despised the first season of Velma, and largely for the wrong reasons. Some critics deemed it uneven, having too many flat, throwaway punchlines. (Not an unfair opinion, I echoed something similar in my own review.) Others didn’t see the point at all, willfully misunderstanding the series’ clever subversion of audience expectations. The clickbaity headline of Velma’s existence is, essentially, “Woke Hollywood Made Velma Non-White and Gay,” which almost everyone with an X account and your emphysema-ridden grandpappy bought into. Some even went so far as to call the show’s execution ironically misogynist in its attempts at parroting liberal ideologies. And then there were the racists, who simply hated Velma because, in this iteration, Velma Dinkley is Indian, and voiced by Mindy Kaling. If you’re curious what the losers who sit in a soundproof closet in their Studio City sublet recording YouTube rants are up to these days, just know they’re already harping on Velma’s second season, which dropped on Max April 25. (“Woke Velma” would be such a beautiful name for a baby girl.)Read more at The Daily Beast.

Jonathan Ernst/ReutersSouth Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem wants it known: It wasn’t easy for her to kill her 14-month-old wirehaired pointer, Cricket, for aggressive behavior.“But often the easy way isn't the right way,” the Republican wrote on X on Sunday as she tried to defend the shocking act that almost certainly dashed any hopes of being Donald Trump’s running mate.What’s clear to anyone who has ever loved a dog is that Noem failed to do the actual hard thing—training Cricket instead of dragging her to a gravel pit and shooting her dead.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Why Not ProductionsJohnny Depp has made far more headlines than movies during the past five years, thanks to a series of marital, legal, and professional scandals that have considerably dented his A-list stature. Those continue to this day, as the release of Jeanne du Barry has been greeted with a fresh round of reports that the Hollywood icon was a scary figure on the set of writer/director/star Maïwenn’s French period piece. (Maïwenn has since walked back those rumors.) Yet amidst all this external noise, Depp’s “comeback” performance turns out to be infinitely less wild and over-the-top than his tabloid reputation. Embodying King Louis XV with an understatement that’s as wry as it is imposing, the actor proves that he remains one of cinema’s most magnetic presences—even if his latest project doesn’t do terribly much with him.Following its world premiere at 2023’s Cannes Film Festival, Jeanne du Barry, which hits theaters May 2, is primarily notable for Depp’s participation, even though he’s merely a supporting player in its 18th-century tale. Instead, the true focus is on its title character (Maïwenn), who’s born Jeanne Vaubernier to a cook and a monk. Seemingly consigned to a simple life of obscurity, the young Jeanne enchants an aristocrat but is seen as a threat by this older man’s wife and is thus sent to a convent, where her fondness for racy reading material gets her tossed onto the streets. There, with her poor mother by her side (and working as her de facto agent), she becomes a prostitute of some repute. Jeanne especially catches the eye of Count Guillaume du Barry (Melvil Poupaud), who takes her into his home, where she comes to love his son Adolph (Thibault Bonenfant) and is befriended by the elder Duc de Richelieu (Pascal Greggory).Much of Jeanne’s early days are recounted in Jeanne du Barry with the aid of dignified narration, regal compositions (emphasis on magisterial master shots), and Stephen Warbeck’s imperial orchestral score, all of which lend the film its reserved, semi-dreamy stateliness. Jeanne’s initial trajectory is the stuff of fairy tales, since after wowing high-society’s men, Jeanne learns that the King (Depp) has an interest in meeting her. This is a boon for everyone involved, including Guillaume, who gladly accepts a pouch full of gold coins as payment for facilitating Jeanne and Louis’ rendezvous at Versailles. The proceedings get a minor jolt from Jeanne’s subsequent session with the ruler’s trusted valet Jean-Benjamin de La Borde (Benjamin Lavernhe), who lays out the specific rules and behaviors required of those entering the monarch’s orbit. Of particularly amusing note is the demand that Jeanne never turns her back on the King; instead, she must take tiny backward steps whenever departing.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesA pair of celebrated writers scheduled to speak at a University of Southern California graduation ceremony that was shifted online have announced they will not be attending, accusing the school of gravely mishandling student protests against the war in Gaza that have rocked its campus in recent weeks.The university called off its “main stage” commencement ceremony on Thursday, citing concerns for the safety of the more than 65,000 people who had been expected to flood campus on May 10. The ceremony’s nixing came less than two weeks after the controversial decision to bar Asna Tabassum, its pro-Palestian valedictorian, from speaking at the event.Instead, the school announced earlier this week, it would break graduation down into satellite ceremonies for its individual colleges.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Fox NewsFormer Donald Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway had some advice for her colleagues during a Fox News appearance Sunday morning, telling conspiracy theorists in the Republican Party that their repeated suggestion that former President Barack Obama is pulling the strings in the current White House may actually be counterproductive.She began her appearance on Fox & Friends Weekend by reflecting on the White House Correspondents dinner Saturday evening, where Trump was a popular target.Joe Biden, however, took his own share of the shots, something Conway seemed to revel in.Read more at The Daily Beast.

HBOWe ended last week’s episode of The Sympathizer on a potential murder. But before Captain (Hoa Xunde) and Bon (Fred Nguyen Khan) kill Major Oahn (Phanxinê), they need to double check a few things. Does the General (Toan Le) still want Major dead? Yes, duh. The bigger question, though, is how Bon and Captain plan on pulling off a homicide without leaving any trace.Captain pitches armed robbery, but Bon shrugs him off. Bon has something to admit: He wasn’t just a regular paratrooper in the war. He was actually in the F-6 program—which specialized in killing and torturing—and never told Man (Don Nguyen) or Captain. Captain is frightened to hear this, although he’s also relieved that he and Man aren’t the only ones harboring secrets.Before they can kill Major, though, Captain and Man will need to hatch a solid plan that they can both agree on. The pair stalk the Major at work, where his wife visits him with their new twin babies Spinach (named after Popeye) and Broccoli (named after…literally just the vegetable). This really makes Captain feel terrible. He’s killing this new dad to cover his own ass. Nevertheless, Bon and Captain persist, visiting the Major’s home to plot how they’ll sneak in and perform the kill. They’re caught scheming by the Major’s mother (Kieu Chinh), who invites them to tea and demands they attend her upcoming birthday gala.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Courtesy of Pen FarthingLONDON—When the Afghan capital fell in August 2021, former British Royal Marine Pen Farthing raised a million pounds of private funds within days to evacuate 171 cats and dogs and his Afghan staff from the Kabul shelter he ran.Paul ‘Pen’ Farthing set up the Nowzad charity in Kabul 18 years ago to care for strays, military dogs and the animal victims of war. Over the years, he rescued thousands of cats and dogs and reunited them with soldiers they’d formed bonds with during their deployment in Afghanistan.As the situation in Kabul descended into a horror show after U.S. and NATO forces abandoned the country and the Taliban seized control, there were traumatic scenes of people stampeding the airport, some even clung onto moving planes and fell to their deaths in their desperation to leave the country. Farthing’s animal-rescue efforts amid the madness caused huge controversy in Britain as he was accused of valuing the lives of ‘pets over people’ and leaving Afghans at the mercy of the Taliban.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Mario Anzuoni/ReutersTaylor Swift reacted to the news Sunday that her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, is as big her fans anticipated.According to Billboard, Swift now ties with Jay-Z for the most Number One records for a solo artist after the album soared to the top spot on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated May 4). She is beaten only by The Beatles, who have 19.The Tortured Poets Department also marked the largest number of streams in a week for an album ever—at least since 2014, when Billboard began measuring the units. The publication described the debut as “gigantic,” including a “staggering” number of vinyl sales totaling 859,000.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Emma McIntyre/Getty ImagesThe brother of iconic Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez had some harsh words for the crowd while performing at a concert in San Antonio over the weekend.A.B. Quintanilla and his act, A.B. Quintanilla Y Los Kumbia Kings All Starz, were headlining Tejano Explosion 2024 on Saturday night as the final concert in a weeklong series. But Quintanilla, who on Thursday performed at the Latin American Music Awards, was soon visibly frustrated by the apparent lack of audience participation.“(It’s) like somebody put a gun to your head and forced you to be here tonight,” the 60-year-old said in video shared by TikTok user eat_teach_reapeat, identified as Dallas resident Maria Perez by the San Antonio Express-News.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesAn animal shelter in South Dakota is rebuffing the idea that there’s such a thing as an “untrainable” dog as Republican Gov. Kristi Noem defends a years-old decision to shoot her 14-month-old puppy over its poor behavior.The governor was widely viewed as a frontrunner in Donald Trump’s vice presidential sweepstakes—until Friday, when The Guardian published excerpts from her forthcoming biography, including grisly details about killing animals on her farm, including the puppy, a female wirehaired pointer named Cricket.In her book, Noem reportedly writes that Cricket was “untrainable,” “aggressive,” and “less than worthless” as a hunting dog. She recalls dragging Cricket to a gravel pit and shooting her in front of a stricken construction crew after becoming fed up with the dog, who had ruined a hunting trip, killed chickens, and bit her.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyAt a Lake Tahoe golf course backdropped with azure waters and snow-capped mountains, adult film star Stormy Daniels took a ride on a cart with Donald Trump.She and other porn actresses joined a potpourri of famous faces for the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship in July 2006, touring the green during a practice round and mingling in the gift room on behalf of the studio Wicked Pictures.“He was introduced to everybody,” Daniels recalled to InTouch years later. “He kept looking at me and then we ended up riding to another hole on the same golf cart together and he’s like, ‘I want to come talk to you later.’”Read more at The Daily Beast.

David Becker/NBAE via Getty ImagesCandace Parker is unlacing her shoes after a 16-season run in the WNBA that included three championships and two MVP awards. The 38-year-old athlete announced her retirement in a social media post on Sunday. “I promised I’d never cheat the game & that I’d leave it in a better place than I came into it. The competitor in me always wants 1 more, but it’s time,” she said. Read more at The Daily Beast.

Mark Peterson/Getty ImagesDonald Trump weighed in on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Sunday, giving a terse, certified rotten review of its key players.“The White House Correspondents’ Dinner was really bad,” he wrote on Truth Social. “Colin Jost BOMBED, and Crooked Joe was an absolute disaster! Doesn’t get much worse than this!”Though the only Trump in the building on Saturday night was Lara, the presidential daughter-in-law recently named head of the Republican National Committee, the former president’s shadow was felt even in the absence of his distinct orange glow. He was a frequent subject of the roasts by both Biden and the keynote comedians.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesSouth Dakota governor Kristi Noem has released a new statement in response to the outrage that followed her unprovoked admission that she once shot a dog she “hated” because she couldn’t train it to be obedient.The former VP hopeful said she was just following the law and “being a responsible parent, dog owner, and neighbor” by killing the pup execution-style.“The fact is, South Dakota law states that dogs who attack and kill livestock can be put down. Given that Cricket had shown aggressive behavior toward people by biting them, I decided what I did,” Noem wrote on X Sunday afternoon.Read more at The Daily Beast.