Taylor Mitchell, a 19-year-old Canadian folk singer, was fatally mauled by coyotes while hiking alone on the Skyline Trail in Cape Breton Highlands National Park on October 27, 2009. The case not only cut short a promising young artist’s life but also left her, to date, as the only person confirmed to have been killed by coyotes in Canada.
Mitchell had been touring eastern Canada to promote her debut album when the fatality happened. Witnesses later reported seeing two unusually bold eastern coyotes (often called coywolves, or a coyote/wolf-hybrid in that region) on the access road minutes before the animals attacked.
