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And when he looked inside the house, the first thing he saw was blood all over the floor.

And at that point,

he unholstered his gun.

And so now with his gun raised, the deputy stepped into the house and he slowly walked through the living room, listening for any signs of sudden movement or an indication there was someone still in the house, but he didn't hear anything.

And so there didn't appear to be an intruder present right now,

but there was also no sign of Patrice.

All he saw was that blood towards the front of the house, that was it.

And so the deputy, he left the living room and walked towards the kitchen.

And as soon as he stepped across the threshold into the kitchen,

He breathed in and just kind of held his breath because what he saw was just chaos.

All the cabinets were open and all over the floor were remnants of all the food that likely was in the cabinets, like pieces of food and ripped up packaging and broken jars.

A window at the far end of the room was also smashed and the security bars that Patrice had put on the window were bent and hanging by their hinges.

There was actually so much just debris and just chaos in the kitchen

that at first the deputy didn't register what was actually laying in the center of the kitchen on the floor.

But then when his brain sort of processed it, he realized what he was looking at was Patrice, at least what was left of her.

But she no longer looked human because her body had literally been torn apart.

The deputy quickly left the house and called in his terrible discovery to the sheriff,

And within an hour, Patrice's property was swarming with police and crime scene techs and a forensic expert who specialized in this type of scene.

And detectives fanned out all across the area and began speaking to Patrice's neighbors.

And because pretty much everyone in the neighborhood had been experiencing the same type of break-ins and property damage that Patrice had been,