OXFORD, Ind. (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Police are investigating the death of a woman found Wednesday with a snake wrapped around her neck in western Indiana.
She was alone visiting her snakes in a home used specifically for housing the reptiles when an 8-foot-long reticulated python wrapped itself around her neck, according to Indiana State Police Sgt. Kim Riley.
The owner of the home walked into the building Wednesday evening and found the snake coiled around 36-year-old Laura Hurst of Battle Ground, Indiana. He called 911.
Paramedics arrived at about 8:50 p.m. in the 600 block of North Dan Patch Drive in Oxford and attempted to revive her, but she was pronounced dead at the scene, Riley said.
No people live in the home, which houses 140 snakes, Riley said. Twenty of them belonged to the woman who died.
She visited the home about two times a week, but it was unclear for how long she had been dead, Riley said.
“The owner is a snake guy,” he said, adding that the owner isn’t related to the woman.
State police have not been called to the home before, and the death did not appear suspicious, Riley said. An autopsy was scheduled for Friday to determine a cause of death.