
Nash's Bridgeport attorney Matthew Newman said a statement would be forthcoming from the family about Herold's death. Toxicology tests howed that Travis had the drug in his blood. Harold and her husband owned Desire Me Towing & Auto Body, Multi-Phase Fabrication & Welding Inc and J&S Associates.Īt first Herold admitted giving Travis Xanax, a drug used to treat anxiety disorders, prior to the attack, but then denied doing so. Herold, who is being sued for $50 million by Nash's estate, owned Travis for 14 years. Sandra Herold, the Connecticut woman whose chimp named Travis went on a violent rampage and ripped off the face of. After Travis went berserk, she stabbed him several times with the knife. Herold owned Travis the chimp, who mauled Charla Nash in 2009. 16, 2009, attacked Nash, who was trying to coax the 200-pound animal back inside, Herold grabbed a butcher knife from her home. She was tough on the outside, but on the inside she was just like anyone else," Tassiello said. And then she had to stab him to help Charla. It was traumatic because after the loss of her daughter, and Jerry, her husband, and Travis was all she had left. Tassiello, who knew Herold for 20 years, agreed that Herold was very depressed after the attack. And after Travis, that put her in a very bad state," Clumax said.Īnother family friend, Nadine Tassiello, of Norwalk, burst into sobs, saying she did not know Herold died.

"She was a person who kept everything to herself. I am too upset," said Clumax, who said she was very friendly with Herold.Ĭlumax later said that in the past few years Herold did not talk to many people about what was going on in her life. She was very depressed about losing everything she and Jerry worked so hard for.
