Former Miss Kansas Theresa Vail charged with illegally killing Alaska grizzly bear

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Former Miss Kansas Theresa Vail charged with illegally killing Alaska grizzly bear
December 8, 2015
The Associated Press

Theresa Vail, a former Miss Kansas who hosts an Outdoor Channel adventure show, illegally shot an Alaska grizzly bear and conspired to cover up the violation, according to charges filed in a rural state court.

Vail, 25, the star of “Limitless With Theresa Vail,” is charged with killing a grizzly bear in May without possessing a state bear tag for the animal. Investigators say she held a single bear tag and shot a male grizzly bear, attempted to kill it with a second shot, and instead fired and killed a second bear, a sow grizzly.

. . .

Prosecutor Aaron Peterson in a criminal complaint said Vail signed and backdated a big-game tag record to make it appear she had purchased the tag before shooting the bear.

Also charged in the case are master guide Michael Wade Renfro, 46, and assistant guide Joseph Andrew Miller, 45. They conspired to cover up Vail’s violation by obtaining the second bear tag after the bears died and submitted wrong information to game authorities, charging documents say.

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article48590235.html

[Aristus]

1. What's The Matter With Kansas?...

...Again?...

[MynameisBlarney]

9. The problem with Kansas

Is that it's full of Kansans?

[snooper2]

11. It's in the middle of the country- everything gets better when you move out to the edges

Except Florida, which will be underwater in 40 years....

Hey, she has a cool tat! LOL

[Laser102]

18. There goes her serenity. As for courage and wisdom, she never had either.

I can not stand hunters who hunt for trophies. They are the scum of the earth. Food yes, trophies no.

[roguevalley]

25. a sow kills a sow. by the way, I live in Alaska around gizzlies.

I loathe this shit. Put her in prison for ten years. I wonder how many youngling cubs have to face the winter without her wisdom and how many cubs she was carrying when this scum bucket killed her.

[adigal]

37. Since it happened in Alaska, I'm surprised Sarah Palin wasn't with her

Oh, sorry. Sarah needs a helicopter to hunt.

[Major Nikon]

2. It would be nice if there were enough outrage to get her fired

But seeing as how she works for a network that employs a known child rapist, I don't hold out much hope.

[mainer]

3. If she had just admitted it was an accident

it wouldn't look so bad. But she tried to cover up what happened, and that's what's getting her into trouble.

[patsimp]

4. what a creep. I hope she gets penalized to the point where it hurts.

imbecile.

[SunSeeker]

5. K & R for exposure.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. But I thought the show was called Limitless?

[MynameisBlarney]

21. Hmmm

Must be Limitless*.

[navarth]

7. And she killed this bear WHY?

I didn't hear that part.

[Fuddnik]

8. It lunged at her with a knife.

[navarth]

13. Well that's different.

Bears: lazy takers. Lucky for us a good guy with a gun was there.

sarcasm off

People like this woman make me bitterly ashamed of my species.

[MynameisBlarney]

10. Because

It was coming right for her.

[navarth]

14. If she was out hunting bears,

I don't blame it.

[MynameisBlarney]

22. No, like the Southpark episode.

[navarth]

26. LOL my bad

My South Park Knowledge is weak....weak...

[MynameisBlarney]

31. It's ok

Let the internet be your guide, and you will achieve true Southpark Nirvana.

[tclambert]

16. She wanted world peace.

[navarth]

17. No doubt. Another ignorant Beauty Creature

out looking for innocent beings to murder because freedumb. Ecchh.

[n2doc]

20. It wasn't armed

If we could legally arm bears things would have been different.

[eomer]

38. I thought we were guaranteed the right to arm bears. /eom

[NickB79]

30. It sounds like there were several bears together in a group when she shot, and hit the wrong one

It says she had a permit to kill a male grizzly, and did shoot and wound one, but when she attempted a second shot to finish him off, she hit the female instead.

If she would have reported the violation the day it happened, she would have received a substantial fine but likely no criminal charges. Attempting to hide her mistake is what got her in hot water.

[sulphurdunn]

33. To show what a big dick she wishes she had?

[KamaAina]

12. 25? Could Caribou Barbie have another daughter we don't know about?

[paleotn]

29. Caribou Barbie clone?

Talk about a scientific ethical dilemma. If so, where the hell was the IRB?

[chervilant]

15. O, what a tangled web we weave

when first we practise to deceive!

[red dog 1]

19. Killing the second bear was wrong, covering up the whole thing was wrong,

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and i hope they all get whatever the maximum fine and/or punishment is.

Kudos to the film crew who reported the incident, or the assholes would have gotten away with it.

I hope The Outdoor Channel drops her show.


K&R, thanks for posting, Judi Lynn

[navarth]

35. How about killing the first bear??

I don't know if you meant that the way it sounds.

[OldHippieChick]

23. So many clever responses.

Thank you all!

[SwankyXomb]

24. It's always the cover up that gets you.

Not knowing the specifics of Alaska game laws, wouldn't she have been better off owning up to it?

[catbyte]

27. What a colossal POS. I'm convinced that "big game" hunting is a form of psychosis.

I just can't wrap my brain around the concept of killing something for pleasure. It's fucking sick. I hope they throw the book at her. So what will her show be called now, "Limitless Poaching with Theresa 'POS' Vail?"

[misterhighwasted]

28. Walter Palmer, the Minnesota dentist accused of killing Cecil the lion,.

..thinks she's hot!!

.(sarcasm off)

[47of74]

32. I wonder if TODD is carrying a torch for her now.

Or the other Palin dudes?

[swilton]

34. Ugly is as Ugly Does

[tabasco]

36. Q: What's wrong with Kansas?

A: Lots of stupid assholes like Theresa Vail.

[goldent]

39. Many people, when in a situation like hers,

try to cover it up. It seems to be some kind of human nature in our society, maybe formed in childhood. I guess I don't feel the outrage.

[vkkv]

40. She should be STRIPPED... of her one time throne. n/t