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In January 2001, Diane Whipple, a 33-year-old lacrosse coach, was tragically mauled to death in the hallway of her San Francisco apartment building by two Presa Canario dogs. The case gained international notoriety not only for its brutality but for its direct connection to the Aryan Brotherhood (AB). The dogs, named Bane and Hera, were part of a "Dog-O-War" breeding scheme orchestrated by Pelican Bay State Prison inmates Paul "Cornfed" Schneider and Dale Bretches, both high-ranking members of the AB. The dogs were being cared for by Schneider's attorneys, Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel, who had a bizarre and illicit relationship with the inmates, even going so far as to legally adopt the 38-year-old Schneider as their son just days after the attack.