California officials unearth 117 dog bodies, many with bullet fragments, at ‘no-kill’ shelter

Sheriff’s investigators haul away one of the dog carcasses recovered from Miranda’s Rescue in Fortuna, California. Photograph: Ryan Burns/Lost Coast Outpost

Investigators uncovered 117 dead dogs at a northern California animal rescue sanctuary, with many of the canine remains having evidence of gunshots.

Miranda’s Rescue, a sanctuary outside Fortuna, California, described itself as a “no-kill” facility. Investigators said the organization accepted hundreds of dogs each year from shelters across the San Francisco Bay Area in return for hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding.