Quote Originally Posted by monk90222 View Post
Back to my original thought....eliminate some of the physical evidence.....
How in the world is the snake considered "evidence?"

It can't talk and investigators can't get anything from it unless it's dead, and since it is now dead, if the police decide that the snake is worth investigating, they now have a cadaver to work on...but it would show nothing other than to match up any "bruises" with the snakes size, perhaps scale indentations etc.