The Death of Diane Whipple, Crime Documentary
Diane Alexis Whipple (January 21, 1968 January 26, 2001) was a lacrosse player and coach, who is best known as the victim of a fatal dog attack in San Francisco in January 2001. The dogs involved were two Presa Canario dogs named Bane (male) and Hera (female), owned by neighbors living in the same apartment building. On January 26, 2001, after returning home with bags of groceries, Whipple was attacked by two large Perro de Presa Canario dogs in the hallway of her apartment building. The dogs, named Bane and Hera, were owned by neighbors Marjorie Knoller and her husband Robert Noel. The dogs actual owner, Paul Schneider, was a highranking member of the prison gang the Aryan Brotherhood who was serving a life sentence in Pelican Bay State Prison. Schneider and his cellmate Dale Bretches were attempting to start an illegal Presa Canario dogfighting business from prison. They initially asked acquaintances Janet Coumbs and Hard Times Kennel owner, breeder James Kolber of Akron, Ohio to raise
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