‘House of horrors’: Missed calls, years of inaction and 125 dead dogs

GEORGETOWN COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) - More than 20 calls to 911. Nearly seven years of complaints. And inside one Georgetown County home, 125 dogs were dead.When law enforcement finally entered Kimberly and Ralph Moody’s home on July 9, investigators found animal carcasses stuffed inside walls, dead dogs in a bedroom, and dozens of animals living in horrific conditions.The discovery raised questions not only about what happened inside the home, but how it went on for so long despite years of warnings.“My staff said that there was an entire room where they had to go in from outside, and it was full of deceased animals. There were deceased animals in the bedroom where they were sleeping,” said Mindy Tiner, executive director of Saint Frances Animal Center.Tiner was among the animal advocates who responded to the home. She said the smell of urine and feces was overwhelming, and ammonia levels became so high that everyone had to leave while crews brought in fans.“It was horrendous. At one point