Jerod Mayo’s English BullDog Found Dead In Trainer’s House

Former New England Patriots linebacker Jerod Mayo reported his pet English Bulldog, Knox, went missing in June. Knox was under the custody of his trainer Amelia Ferreira at the time.

On Sunday, August 5, the Rhode Island SPCA found Knox’s body, dead in Ferreira’s house.

The SPCA released a statement:

Knox died while in the custody of the trainer, Amelia Ferreira. Ferreira is being charged by the Cranston Police Department, with one count of Obstruction, for concealing evidence relevant to this investigation. Evidence revealed that Ferreira has known the whereabouts of Knox’s deceased body for several weeks and intentionally concealed his body from authorities. Cause of death is currently unknown, and additional charges relating to animal cruelty may follow, pending the results of a necropsy.

According to a Boston.com article on the dog’s death, Ferreira first told Mayo and police that Knox had run off during a walk in the park; searchers found his collar on one of the park trails but couldn’t locate him.

Later the trainer changed her story, this time claiming that Knox had escaped his crate in her home. Leaving out that she had hid Knox dead body in her closet.

After finding out the news, Jerod Mayo went to Instagram to reveal the news of what happened to his beloved dog Knox.

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Unfortunately, the answers we prayed for regarding Knox aren’t ones we were ready to face. Knowing what we know now about @offleashk9trainingprov @offleashk9training we mentally explored every outcome possible and the reality is we were right. Knox has passed and his BODY WAS FOUND IN THE HOME OF THE OFFLEASH TRAINER. IT’s disgusting and inhumane that a company full of “dog lovers” would hide a family pet IN A CLOSET FOR TWO MONTHS and compulsively lie and send us on a wild goose hunt and our kids on an emotional rollercoaster. Staging him running away, him being stolen, even him drowning having us knocking on doors sending us false leads as we searched two states. We’ve hired scuba teams, private investigators, lawyers and more when they knew they HAD HIM IN THEIR HOME IN A TRASH BAG tucked away the whole two months. Yeah A TRASH BAG! We raised Knox like our child as you guys can see from our photos and those of you who know us. It hurts to have to accept that our beloved Knox was thought of as trash as they saw our family hurting. Currently all that these people are facing is obstruction. Not animal cruelty🤦🏾‍♀️ or filing false police reports or for plain ole tossing someone’s family member in a trash bag and storing it! From the Mayo family, we want to thank all of the people who spent countless hours looking for Knox. To our social media family, thank you for posting every day. We still have work to do…..we need to bring awareness to this problem so it never happens again. This is just getting started #repost #justice4knox #knoxmayo #offleashk9training #olk9training #olk9ri #offleashk9 #ripknox #knoxslaw

A post shared by Jerod Mayo (@jerod_mayo51) on Aug 6, 2018 at 11:07am PDT

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