Could this be the Finger Found In Wendy's Chili????

[dolphin]

This was the front page news on Friday of my local newspaper. This woman says it's her finger!

http://www.pahrumpvalleytimes.com/20...ws/finger.html

Mystery of severed finger puts spotlight on Pahrump
DEMEO SAYS ALLMAN'S INJURY DOESN'T MATCH FINGER LAS VEGAS WOMAN CLAIMS WAS IN CHILI
By PHILLIP GOMEZ and DOUG McMURDO
PVT

PHILLIP GOMEZ / PVT
Journalists from various media gathered in front of and around Sandy Allman's house on Bannavitch Street Wednesday morning, hoping to get her to come out and talk about her possible involvement in the latest on the fingertip discovered in a bowl of Wendy's chili.
Local, regional and national news media descended on Pahrump Wednesday morning trying to find the body that goes with the finger found recently in a bowl of chili at a Wendy's restaurant in San Jose, Calif.

KLAS-TV Channel 8 in Las Vegas picked up the sensational story's latest development from the San Jose Mercury News, tracing the finger's possible origins to Pahrump.

Sandy Allman, a keeper of exotic animals and girlfriend of Karl Mitchell, the former animal control contractor with Nye County now serving time in prison, was named as the person to whom the 1 1/2-inch chunk of finger found earlier this month likely belongs.

Allman in a report published in Thursday's Los Angeles Times, through her attorney said she believes the body part is hers, and that she wants to participate in DNA testing of the finger. Officials at Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas, where Allman went after losing the tip of her middle finger, said they cannot find the digit, which could not be reattached, and that they have no record of Allman's visit. Allman's attorney, Philip Sheldon, said his client has "absolutely no connection" to the woman who made the claim against Wendy's, according to the Los Angeles Times.

And Sheriff Tony DeMeo late Thursday told the newspaper that the two fingers didn't match in terms of length. Allman lost roughly one-half inch of her finger; the digit Ayala alleges she bit into at Wendy's is one and one-half inches long.

Before that news was released, however, the Pahrump Valley Times was inundated with phone calls from CNN, the San Francisco Chronicle, ABC-TV's "Good Morning America," Las Vegas TV stations and newspapers, and numerous other newspapers and television news stations - all eager to learn how to contact Allman and of her past history keeping tigers, panthers and other wild animals.

Allman's connection to the national story of a Las Vegas woman who said she found a fingertip in a bowl of Wendy's chili in San Jose remains speculative, but indications point to her as the finger's owner.

The Mercury News learned about Allman's potential involvement after receiving a call on Tuesday from an exotic animal sanctuary in San Antonio. The same caller, Carol Asvestas, executive director of the Wild Animal Orphanage, made a report to Wendy's hotline, according to the Mercury News. Attempts to contact Asvestas were unsuccessful.

Wendy's is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the finger's origin. Reports are that sales are down 20 to 50 percent in some Bay Area franchises.

Allman lost her finger to a leopard's bite at her home Feb. 23 in the presence of Asvestas and Cindy Carroccio, director of the Austin (Texas) Zoo. According to the Mercury News report, Allman was showing Asvestas her wild cats. The last words out of her mouth were, "These are my babies. They would never hurt me."

The Pahrump Valley Times reported on March 4 the rescue of Allman and Mitchell's cats by the Animal Sanctuary of the United States, some of whose members came to Pahrump to haul the animals to the Wild Animal Orphanage in San Antonio. The paper also reported that a week earlier Allman had had the tip of her index finger bitten off by a leopard.

Carroccio, according to the Mercury News report, said her boyfriend spotted the finger lying at the bottom of the animal's cage. Asvestas, meanwhile, was trying to stop Allman's bleeding.

The finger was reportedly fished out of the cage with a stick, washed off and put in a Kleenex. A photo was taken of the digit, Carroccio said.

Meanwhile, Anna Ayala, the Las Vegas woman who claimed to have discovered the finger in her chili, has reportedly decided to drop her legal claim against Wendy's due to "emotional distress" over the case. Court records have shown that the former Santa Clara woman has a history of suing businesses and of being sued over the past decade.

Nothing definitive to date has been established linking Ayala with Allman. Investigators have insisted that it would take a DNA test to determine scientifically whether the finger belongs to Allman.

Nye County Sheriff Tony DeMeo said he had taken calls from news organizations all over the country, all day regarding the latest in the finger caper. DeMeo said his office is cooperating with the San Jose Police Department, but at this time Allman was not under criminal investigation. Nevertheless, a deputy had been sent to contact her, DeMeo said. He clarified, saying his department was "in the process" of trying to contact her. He did not say what for.

[Mamawolf]

I heard about this story on the radio, but they said that the DNA didn't match?

[Mommy2five]

[Katybird]

That entire incident is just to weird .

[Sara Noel]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...r&sid=84439559

[kestrel91316]

Now I hear the woman who "found" the finger in her chili has been arrested. I am very curious as to whether maybe she knows somebody who works in a mortuary, where it would be easy to cut the fingetip of a corpse soon-to-be-buried and nobody would notice....................this just gets curiouser and curiouser.

[dolphin]

Ayala also was arrested on a warrant alleging grand larceny — a charge not related to the discovery of the fingertip. The police chief said the grand larceny allegation stemmed from a 2002 incident in which Ayala allegedly tried to sell a mobile home in San Jose that she did not own. The victim lost $11,000.

On our news they said she was being charged with "larceny", "attempted grand larceny", and "grand larceny".

It will be so interesting to find out what's really going on. Our news kept telling us they would update yesterday but I never saw an update.