OK. This one is hard to believe. But true stories are better than fiction. Three weeks ago I posted a story about my dumbass cat and the string hanging out of her ass. http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=12124

I thought it was crime that I had to pay $220 to Harleysville Veterinary Hospital so they could keep her for two days until she shit the string out. The nice mild mannered veterinarian stayed all weekend with our cat and kept Avalon up to date on the string’s progress. The nice veterinarian’s name was David Rapoport. He evidently loves dogs and cats, but isn’t a big fan of babies. I opened my local newspaper this morning to the headline below.

Upper Gwynedd veterinarian David Rapoport charged in murder of woman and unborn child

A married veterinarian furious over his mistress’ pregnancy shot the woman three times before dumping her body in a nature preserve, authorities said Tuesday.

Dr. David A. Rapoport of the 1200 block of Brownstown Court, Upper Gwynedd, is being held without bail on charges of criminal homicide and criminal homicide of an unborn child.

Rapoport, a married veterinarian who worked at the Harleysville Veterinary Hospital, is accused of fatally shooting Jennifer L. Snyder, a 27-year-old Lower Macungie Township woman, who was 10 to 12 weeks pregnant with his child, according to the Lehigh County District Attorney’s office.

State police arrested Rapoport, 30, in last week’s shooting death of Snyder, whose body was discovered Friday in a wooded ravine in the Trexler Nature Preserve in North Whitehall Township, near Allentown.

Bullet casings from the scene matched a gun that officers recovered from Rapoport’s vehicle, Lehigh County District Attorney James Martin said.

Authorities suspect that Rapoport, 30, killed Snyder because he was angry about the pregnancy. Snyder had been a technician at a Lower Macungie veterinary hospital.

Police say Snyder was last seen Wednesday and failed to show up for a doctor’s appointment Thursday morning.

State police took Rapoport into custody before 10 a.m. Tuesday “outside his father’s home in Montgomery County,” according to Lehigh County officials, and was arraigned by District Judge Jacob Hammond of Allentown.

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He did not have an attorney, court officials said.

Snyder’s body was found a short distance from where her vehicle was discovered on Thursday while police were responding to a call of a suspicious vehicle in a parking lot on Independence Drive in North Whitehall.

Police said that the vehicle, which was registered to Snyder, had a shattered passenger side window and that there was blood and two spent shell casings inside the vehicle.

Lehigh County Coroner Scott Grimm determined that Snyder had been shot once in the back and twice in the head.

Police said that an investigation interview with Rapoport Thursday revealed that he and Snyder had been dating.

The investigation turned up a 9mm Glock semiautomatic pistol belonging to Rapoport, according to authorities. Police ballistics tests determined that the discharged casings found in Snyder’s vehicle and at the scene where her body was found matched the gun.

According to court documents, police believe Rapoport killed Snyder on Wednesday, then dumped her blood-soaked car behind a professional building about two miles from where the woman’s body was found doused in bleach and wrapped in a blanket and trash bags bound with duct tape.

Surveillance video from the building appears to show Rapoport getting out of Snyder’s vehicle on Wednesday afternoon and tossing a bottle of bleach into the trash nearby, police said.

Blood-spattered duct tape and a handgun were recovered from Rapoport’s vehicle, according to police.

When questioned by police, Rapoport initially denied any recent contact with Snyder, but later acknowledged having a relationship with her and not wanting his wife to know about it.

Snyder’s roommate said the victim left her apartment in Lower Macungie on Wednesday and was planning to meet Rapoport.

She wasn’t seen after that and was reported missing after she failed to show up for an obstetrician appointment Thursday morning. An autopsy determined she was pregnant with a boy.

According to court documents, Rapoport is scheduled for a preliminary hearing at 10:30 a.m. March 29 at the Lehigh County Courthouse in Allentown.

Martin said it was too early to say if he would seek the death penalty in the case.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.