"Back in 2001, before SFist existed, there was a high-profile murder trial in San Francisco so crazy that it made the Bob Lee-Nima Momeni murder trial look like an afternoon seminar at the SF Public Library History Center. That was the trial in the murder of Diane Whipple, who was killed exactly 25 years ago this coming Monday, in an incident where her neighbors' very vicious dogs ripped her to sheds in a Pac Heights apartment complex."
"The owners of the killer dogs, conspicuously unremorseful Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel, were actually caring for those dogs because they belonged to their adopted adult son and Aryan Brotherhood skinhead inmate Paul Cornfed Schnieder, who was serving three life sentences in prison. The case became even more notorious when the duo's attorney got down on all fours in a courtroom in an attempt to make a legal point."
Diane Whipple was killed in 2001 when neighbors' large dogs attacked her in a Pacific Heights apartment. The dogs were cared for by Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel, who were allegedly harboring animals belonging to their adopted adult son Paul Cornfed Schnieder, an Aryan Brotherhood inmate serving three life sentences. The trial drew intense media attention and sensational courtroom moments, including an attorney mimicking dogs. Both Knoller and Noel were convicted of second-degree murder; Knoller's initial conviction was overturned but she was reconvicted in 2008 and sentenced to 15 years to life. Knoller has been incarcerated at Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla and is now facing a third parole hearing.
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