Psychos with Kitchen Knife, Could you defend yourself?

Imagine visiting a friend from out of town. Your friend leaves and leaves you alone with stranger who as soon as your friend leaves the stranger threatens to stab you to death. He then lunges for a kitchen knife and charges in to end your life. This seems like a story right out of a slasher movie but this was real life for a Utah woman. Luckily she was able to run upstairs and barricade herself in a bathroom and the man was only able to break down one of the doors she had locked. 


I am a big advocate of if you can escape do so but what if he made it through that second door? Ultimate Defense is not about crossing your fingers and hoping you survive, its about preparing so you DO survive. You can always run but you must know what to do if running is no longer an option. TRAIN, DEFEND, AND LIVE!

Charges: Man tried to kill woman before killing a dog

April 7th, 2011 @ 9:08pm

WEST VALLEY CITY — A Salt Lake County man was charged Thursday with trying to kill a woman with a kitchen knife before killing a dog. 

On April 4, a woman was visiting her friend's house near 3100 South and 6400 West, when she was left alone with Kirk Heath McDougal, 33, according to charges filed in 3rd District Court. For some reason, the man told the woman that they were both going to hell, then said he was going to kill her and stab her to death, the charges state. 

Kirk McDougal

McDougal then picked up a kitchen knife, police said, and started chasing the woman, who ran upstairs and locked herself in the master bedroom and the master bathroom. McDougal broke down the bedroom door and attempted without success to break down the bathroom door.

McDougal told the woman that he was going to stab and kill the homeowner's Terrier dog, the charges state. The woman then heard the dog yelping in pain.  

The woman waited until she thought McDougal had left the house before leaving the bathroom. After a long wait, she left and saw the dog "lying on the floor in a pool of blood," according to the charges

Police arrested McDougal a few blocks away standing in front of a house yelling with his pants pulled down.

He was charged with attempted murder, a first-degree felony; torture of a companion animal, a third-degree felony; and criminal mischief and lewdness, class B misdemeanors.