The Diane Whipple
murder

DianeWhipple - Ripped to pieces by killer dogs

This is the story of two jail house lawyers (Robert Noel and Marjorie
Knoller ) who get involved with convicts, drugs and killer dogs. They
keep the dogs in a upscale San Francisco apartment, and one day the dogs kill a neighbor.

Marjorie Knoller is walking her dogs when she runs into Dianne
Whipple, who is entering her apartment , there is a confrontation, and
the dogs attack. Whipple is ripped to pieces, as Knoller calmly
watches.

Investigators
were looking into the possibility that sexual abuse of the animals may have spurred
the attack on Whipple. At the trial, the jury
felt that the owner ordered the dogs to
attack.

Characters involved

Dogs owners

140 lb dogs

Head of amphetamine
ring

Noel and Knoller

Bane and Hera

Paul "Cornfed"
Schneider -
partner

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The
attack

Whipple was carrying groceries into her apartment, when she ran into Knoller,
and her dogs. The male dog
sniffed Whipple, and nuzzled her crotch. Whipple
pushes the dog away,  and it explodes in a rage where it ripped her throat, bit her all over and
dragged her body around the hallway. While all of this happened,
Marjorie Knoller, the owner, stood by.

After the attack Knoller callously  stepped over
Diane's body to get back into her apartment. She left one of the dogs in
the hallway, one was brought inside.

Whipple sustained a total of 77 bite wounds, the most
serious ones being severe bites to her neck. The dogs severed her
jugular.

The first police officer on the scene described how Whipple laid in a
pool of blood and was crawling to her apartment, bleeding profusely. She
died on operating
table waiting for paramedics. Detailed
description

The dog that killed
Whipple

The dog is lead out of the apartment building after the
attack.

The
investigation

Attorneys tied to prisoners

San Francisco police learn that the two lawyers were working with a
Pelican Bay prisoner named Paul "Cornfed" Schneider, who was raising killer attack dogs to guard
methamphetamine labs for the Mexican Mafia.  More info

These two lawyers represented convicts in lawsuits
against the prisons, and that's where they met
Paul John Schneider, a Aryan white supremacist. Cornfeld was in prison
for attempted murder, and needed someone to
handle his dogs and these two
agreed.

Investigation takes bizarre twist

The lawyers later adopted Schneider as their "lawful
son." Noel is Jewish, while Schneider is an
Aryan Brotherhood member. Knoller takes a sexual interest in Cornfed,
and is said to have given him pictures of her
nude with Bane ( dog ).

Schneider (Marjorie Knoller's adopted son) turns her
into the Betty Grabble of Pelican bay prison. The pictures of her and
Bane was the talk of every cell block.

Schneider bragged that Bane, “loved
the ladies”, and discussed how the dog
developed an erection the first time he met Marjorie. Documents found in Schneider's cell, including letters and
nude photographs of
Knoller, provided evidence of sexual activity between the couple and
Bane, according to an investigator in the San Francisco District
Attorney's office.

The
trial

Knoller and Noel at
trial

In March, Marjorie Knoller was charged with second-degree murder, and
Noel and Knoller both were charged with manslaughter, and keeping a mischievous animal. The trial was
moved to Los Angeles because of the massive publicity surrounding the
case.  Article

Judge blocks evidence

The case could involve evidence that the couple, a pair
of San Francisco lawyers who got the Presa
Canario dogs from a pair of convicts they defended and befriended, engaged
in "inappropriate sexual conduct" with the
animals, according to prosecutors.

" They blurred the boundaries between dogs and humans ,
with fatal consequences," San Francisco prosecutor Jim Hammer testified
during a hearing earlier this month. Judge James Warren ruled on Jan. 15
that any evidence related to sexual activity would only be admitted if
prosecutors can show how it affected the way the dogs behaved.

"If there is sex that is relevant in this case, either with dogs or
with humans, it would be scrutinized outside the presence of the media,"
Warren said at that hearing.

Prosecutor is hampered

The most damning evidence was never presented to the
jury.

The judge in the case, refused to allow prosecutor Jim
Hammer to present evidence suggesting that Knoller and Noel had engaged in beastiality
with the dogs, and this abuse may have
triggered the attack. Article.

He cited Knoller's statements that her dog Bane was sniffing at Whipple's crotch just
before the attack and may have instigated the mauling after being
sexually aroused by her. Hammer argued that any sexual conduct between
the couple and the dogs would therefore be relevant since by Knoller's
account, a sexual attraction may have sparked the
attack.

Evidence is blocked

Police find photos but Judge bans evidence

While seeking evidence in the mauling, police found
risqué photos of Knoller in Schneider’s cell. Police will not discuss
other evidence, but their search warrant said they were after material
"describing sexual acts by
Noel or Knoller that involved dogs." More

Schneider( Marjoie's adopted son )  had pictures of his "Momma
Knoller" being very risqué with " Bane the doggie " and readily share them with other
convicts. Rumors flew that there were
pictures of Robert Noel performing oral sex with Bane but they
couldn't be produced at trial.

Police officer Carlos Sanchez who reports that "…investigators
believed the dogs, Hera [female] and Bane [male] were being sexually
assaulted by Noel and Knoller. Noel has said the issue is nobody's business

Robert Noel's lust was public
knowledge

A  Pelican Bay guard said he saw Noel change. "I'd get on the
phone with Bob to ask him about a case," Keith Whitley said, "and all he
did was talk about how big Bane's
balls were."

Noel himself bragged
to the magazine about the size of the dog's penis and its
erections.

Prosecutor says attack caused by abused
dogs

Bane
(male) had been with Marge Knoller, and
was attracted to women.

At a grand jury hearing in March, Hammer
testified that Bane, the male dog who was determined to be the
primary aggressor in the attack, "put his head in Miss Whipple's crotch"
and responded to her the way he would have to a "bitch in heat."

Knoller referred to Bane as her "
Certified Lick Specialist " ... Bane preformed cunnilingus on
Knoller.

Lawyer's
defense

Two Jewish lawyers blame the victim and then claim
anti semitism

Robert Noel insinuated that Whipple, a university lacrosse
coach, was on steroids and that triggered the attack.

Noel and Knoller (Holocaust
survivors), compared a surprise police
search of his apartment to Nazi Gestapo tactics, angering several
survivors.

San Francisco District Attorney Terrance Hallinan "chose a time
when we were out of town to come over and kick down the doors of a
Jewish home," Robert Noel was quoted as saying in the San
Francisco Chronicle. "My relatives went
through this in Germany." Rest
of story

When asked if she was an associate of the Aryan Brotherhood,
Knoller responded, "I'm Jewish and my family
were survivors of the Holocaust. So, no."

The
verdict

Knoller is convicted

Marjorie Knoller, 46, is convicted of second degree Murder.

As the jury's verdict was
being read to the court, Knoller looked shocked, taking several deep
breaths. Noel, who refuses
to stand, showed no reaction.

Verdict

Jurors believed
that Knoller had the dogs attack

After the trial, jurors now say they discussed whether the attack
that took Whipple´s life may have been deliberate. Knoller may had her
dogs deliberately attack Whipple.

Jury foreman Don Newton said that jurors didn't buy Knoller's version
of what happened during the  attack on Whipple. He said, they were left to only guess about what happened.

Newton said  ``Some of the jurors even suggested she engineered
the attack on Diane Whipple.

Judge overturns murder
verdict

Marjorie Knoller had been convicted by a Los Angeles jury of both
murder and manslaughter, but the trial judge later reversed the murder
conviction.

Had the murder conviction stood, Knoller would have faced a maximum
term of 15 years to life in prison. Judge James Warren, who set aside
the jury's verdict on the murder charge, ordered that Knoller be
retried on just on that count.

Sentenced to country club prison and received
early parole

Jewish interests push for an early
release

Marjorie Knoller was released
on parole from the Central California Women's Facility in
Chowchilla, Calif., on Friday, after serving 33 months for involuntary
manslaughter.

Robert Noel was released September 2003 after serving little more
than half his four-year sentence.  Noel, who served most of his
time in Oregon ( Country Club prison ), was transferred last week to a
state prison in Susanville.

Murder
verdict reinstated

Appeals Court reverses verdict

May. 05, 2005 - A
California appeals court today reinstated the second-degree murder conviction of Marjorie Knoller.

Picture
from Jewish news laughing about incident

Aryan dog adopted by Jews kills woman.

Apparently, the shift from a Aryan Brotherhood owner to the home of a
pair of Jewish lawyers did not have a calming effect on this killer
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