Scooby, NYPD Bloodhound That Found Cop Killers, Dies

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The NYPD bloodhound who helped catch the killers in a gruesome 2007 cop shooting case has died, according to a police spokesman. Four years ago, the aptly named Scooby helped track down suspects Dexter Bostic and Robert Ellis in the woods of eastern Pennsylvania after they ran away from a police shootout that ultimately left Officer Russel Timoshenko dead.

Scooby, who was "born to hunt and bred to track criminals," used the scent of sloughed-off skin cells from the suspects to track them through a deeply forested area. The killers were brought back to New york and Bostic was ultimately convicted of murder. Scooby, who was born in North Carolina, was ten years old (that's about 70 in human years) and died of natural causes in his sleep over the weekend.

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