AR-News: (NH/ME - US) Women drown boyfriend's dog and fake robbery to cover up

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Women drown boyfriend's dog and fake robbery to cover up

Erin Wylie didn't like her boyfriends dog, so her girlfriend drowned the 2-year-old dachshund named Dewey in a bathtub.

Wylie was jealous of the dog.  Knowing the dog was dead she helped put up wanted posters to find the dog, and cried with her boyfriend and comforted him.  Wylie and Shannon Walters staged a burglary by slicing a screen while her boyfriend was at work.

Wylie, a hospital secretary, along with her girlfriend Shannon Walters faked a robbery by breaking into the home of Wylie's boyfriend Pat Collins in Kittery, Maine, stole his laptop computer, a camera and the dog.  The two took the dog to Wylie's home and drowned Dewey in the bathtub.  

Walters was arrested on Friday, May 21st at 10pm in the parking lot of the Dairy Queen at the Kittery circle.  It is alleged the women met there to discuss how to dispose of the remains of the dog which were stuffed in a garbage bag in the back of Walter's truck.  Wylie was arrested when she went to bail out Walters.

Walters, who worked at an insurance company, reportedly told the police that Wylie was Collin's girlfriend and did not like the dog.  She further stated the burglary was staged so they could take the dog.  Walters reportedly told the police she held the dog under water until it drowned while Wylie waited in a nearby room.

The women were charged with felony burglary and receiving stolen property in Maine.  Animal cruelty charges have not yet been filed by the Portsmouth NH police, pending further investigation.  They were transported to the York County Jail in Maine, made bail and released.  Their arraignment is scheduled for July 29th.

Police from Kittery and Eliot' Maine along with Newmarket and Portsmouth, NH are involved in the investigation.  The ruthless duo were caught because of a tip called into police after a woman saw some emails the 2 perpetrators had exchanged.