Help needed for starved horses by KOMO staff Aired on Dec 8 2008 SNOHOMISH, Wash. — Animal control officers are asking for help caring for neglected horses after finding one horse dead and several others starving at a Snohomish home in what they’re calling the worst…

Crocodile Tears by Monica Bretherton Published Nov 4 2008 Do crocodiles cry for the victims they are eating, as legend holds? Certainly not — they have no tear ducts. Jean Elledge does, as she demonstrated again at her sentencing hearing in Snohomish County Superior…

Monroe woman sentenced to year in jail for starving horses By The Associated Press Published Nov 4 2008 EVERETT — A Monroe woman who starved five horses to death was sentenced to a year in jail for animal cruelty. The 57-year-old woman, Jean Marie Elledge, pleaded…

Facing the Ghosts by Monica Bretherton Published Oct 19 2008 Jean Elledge appeared before Judge Ramsdell at the King County Courthouse at 2:45 yesterday for sentencing on the three counts of Animal Cruelty in the First Degree to which she entered a guilty plea in…

9‑month sentence in case of starved horses By LEVI PULKKINEN Published Oct 17 2008 Lilly was a foal when animal control officers saved her from Jean Marie Elledge’s pasture. Skinny and sick, she was still better off than the four horses found dead on the Carnation…

Woman sentenced for what rescuers called ‘horrifying’ case of animal abuse By KOMO Staff Aired Oct 17 2008 SEATTLE — A King County woman was sentenced Friday to nine months in jail for letting horses die and live in filthy conditions on her property. Jean Elledge…

Carnation woman sentenced in animal cruelty case by LINDA BRILL / KING 5 News Aired Oct 17 2008 SEATTLE — A Carnation woman was sentenced to nine moths in jail for felony animal cruelty today in a major animal abuse case involving dozens of dead and starving horses.…

Carnation woman sentenced for letting horses starve By Nancy Bartley Published Oct 7 2009 A Carnation woman who allowed several horses to starve to death was sentenced Friday to nine months in jail, a year of community supervision and ordered to no longer care for…

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Carnation woman pleads guilty to animal cruelty By LEVI PULKKINEN Published Oct 17 2008 A 57-year-old King County woman could spend a year in jail for allowing three horses on her Carnation farm to starve to death. On Thursday, Jean Elledge pleaded guilty to three…

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