![]() ![]() ![]() But for now, Charla appears to be living an optimistic and healthy life - while it's still a wonder she survived at all. The story of Moe and the Davises began to sour in 1977, when the chimp attacked a woman, biting her on the finger. Travis then ran out of the house with his 70-year-old owner's car keys, urging Sharon to call on her friend, Charla for help. A well-known chimp named Moe - whose chimp companions brutally attacked Moe's owner in 2005 - is missing from the Devore wildlife facility where he lived, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department reports. Travis used his huge primate teeth to tear off Charla’s hands - before attacking her her lips, eyelids, eyes, and nose. A worried Sandra put anti-anxiety medication, Xanax in a cup of Travis' afternoon tea to calm him down – something that was later blamed for his subsequent actions. Her hands, eyelids, nose and lips were torn from her body. ![]() "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. When Charla Nash was trying to lure the 200-pound chimpanzee Travis, pictured here with owner Sandra Herold, he attacked her, permanently disfiguring her face and hands. When Sharon's husband Jerome died of cancer in 2004, which was shortly followed by the death of the couples’ only son - Travis became a surrogate child to the grieving wife and mother. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. Nash appears in this handout photo with Travis the chimpanzee, the same animal that later mauled her in a Feb. ![]()
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