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Along a thick patch of bushes and trees, a black bear appeared from the forest. The woman wasn’t surprised by its presence, as they were common near her home. What surprised her was how the black bear focused on her and plodded toward her in ominous steps that she knew she couldn’t outrun. Welcome back to Scary Bear Attacks.
The new stresses on the First Nations people were economic and political stresses they felt as they dealt with the government and corporations extracting energy for global markets and other exploits and ventures. But just because the stresses changed doesn’t mean that the dangers from prior eras had disappeared.
Bernice Adolph was an elder in the Xaxli’p First Nations Tribe and was a regular sight around town. She often helped out happily performing roles at various community venues and services. She was so reliable in her patterns that her neighbors and friends quickly realized it when she wasn’t where she would normally be.
By late June 2011, Bernice had come up missing after being seen on June 26th. The local community had reported her missing from the usual places she was observed. She hadn’t picked up her weekly supply of groceries and was seen running errands around town. Suspicion grew, and people started talking and asking questions about Bernice’s whereabouts. It wasn’t long before they involved local authorities, and a search for her was organized on June 30th..
Bernice’s home was likely the starting point for her search. Reports indicate that there were no attractants left out near Bernice’s home and that it was generally in a state of organization and repair. There was no evidence of forced entry by a bear or a person, and the contents of her home were not ransacked, leaving investigators at a loss for any explanation of her whereabouts.
A highly trained police dog hit on a scent not far from Bernice's home, and searchers looked on in hopes of finding her. A scent trail leading a few hundred yards from her home was followed and ended up at her dead body.
Beneath a pile of scraped-up dirt and debris, authorities located Bernice’s partially consumed remains. Investigators knew that the consumption of Bernice’s body may have taken place after her death, so they marked off the area as a potential crime scene as forensic investigators processed it. They collected DNA swabs from Bernice as well as saliva left around her wounds.
A potential scenario may have been that Bernice was killed by a person and left for the animals to find, so gathering all evidence and information meticulously was critical to finding out what had happened to her. Her body was taken to the forensic lab for analysis by investigators and was examined by the coroner for the cause of death.
After all possible causes were excluded, Bernice's death was determined. She had died from the wounds inflicted during a bear attack. Although the body was believed to belong to Bernice, it took dental records to confirm her identity, given that a substantial portion of her corpse was consumed.
Now understanding that they had a predatory bear in their area, conservation officers set snare traps over bait and established patrols in the forests to search for the bear. As expected, their bait brought in several bears, five of which were shot and killed by the officers. As each bear was killed, its carcass was examined for evidence linking it to Bernice’s death and consumption. One of the five bears turned up positive for her DNA, and authorities knew they had killed the predatory bear.
As for the bear's motives in killing and eating Bernice, it was not found to be protecting a cached animal carcass, eliminating an attack based on defense of a food source. If the bear were surprised by Bernice, it would likely have opted for escape over killing and eating her, eliminating a defensive attack due to surprise. There were no cubs observed at or near the attack site, eliminating the protection of cubs as an extenuating factor in the attack. Speaking of cubs, our Cub Tier Membership on Patreon, linked below, will give you ad-free early access to our episodes, notes, and photos. And, the $3 per month goes a long way in helping me continue to produce educational and entertaining content like this.
British Columbia has the highest concentration of black bears in North America, with 120,000 to 150,000 spread out over the province's 364800 square miles. This is about one black bear per 2.4 square miles using the higher population estimate, which is an extremely high population density.
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