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Following the killing of a gorilla and subsequent tensions, she was murdered in her cabin at a remote camp in Rwanda in December 1985. Although Fossey's American research assistant was convicted in absentia, there is no consensus as to who killed her.
Dian Fossey was found murdered in her Karisoke cabin on the faithful evening of December 27, 1985. What terrible series of circumstances led to Fossey’s assassination with the weapon that symbolized her greatest battle, a machete that she had herself seized from a poacher?
On December 26, 1985, primatologist and conservationist Dr. Dian Fossey is found murdered in her cabin at Karisoke, a research site in the mountains of Rwanda.
A Rwandan tribunal Thursday found American researcher Wayne Richard McGuire guilty of murdering renowned gorilla expert Dian Fossey last year and sentenced him in absentia to death by...
Early on the morning of Dec. 27, 1985, Dian Fossey, 53, was found dead in the bedroom of her two-room corrugated-tin cabin. Her face had been slashed in two by the blows of a machete.
Tragically, on December 26, 1985, Fossey was found hacked to death, presumably by poachers, at her Rwandan forest camp. No assailant has ever been found or prosecuted in her murder.
Died: December 26, 1985, Rwanda (aged 53) Notable Works: “Gorillas in the Mist”. Subjects Of Study: mountain gorilla. western gorilla. Dian Fossey (born January 16, 1932, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died December 26, 1985, Rwanda) was an American zoologist who became the world’s leading authority on the mountain gorilla. Dian Fossey ...
Theories about Dian Fossey’s murder are varied but have never been fully resolved. She was laid to rest in the graveyard behind her cabin at Karisoke, among her gorilla friends and next to her beloved Digit.
Katherine Bouton writes about the murder of Dian Fossey, the conservationist of gorillas who battled poachers in Rwanda.
In 1985, two years after her book was released, Dian Fossey was found dead in her cabin at the edge of her camp, killed by a single blow to the head with a machete. As all of her valuables were still in the cabin, burglary was ruled out as a motive.