Her body had been mutilated and most of her face was missing. Blood soaked what remained of her gray fur. The killing, which was announced Thursday, beneath the foothills of the city was fitting of noir murder mystery, except for the setting and the victim: the Los Angeles Zoo — and a koala. Small and elderly at 14 years old, Killarney the koala was discovered far from her dirt-paved pen. The prime suspect is a bit of a celebrity. He has graced the pages of National Geographic with the Hollywood sign as his backdrop. He's a cougar dubbed P-22 who once caused a media frenzy when he came out of the mountains and took refuge in the crawl space of a Los Feliz home. NEWSLETTER: Get...
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