In a written confession, he said that he had been planning to return the animal but began “hitting it with rage” and eventually took it into the woods and killed it.

A Butler man has admitted to breaking into a woman’s house last year to steal and kill her dog, according to police. Joseph W. Hilliard, 27, of Butler, is accused of killing the woman’s 10-year-old

A Pennsylvania man is accused of breaking into a woman’s home after she rejected him, then stealing her dog and killing it, police told news outlets. Joseph Winters Hillard, 28, was arrested Jan. 29 on charges including burglary,