A heartless Florida woman has been found guilty of burning a tame-looking raccoon alive inside a dumpster — and filming the animal’s fiery torment for Snapchat.
Alicia Kincheloe, 30, from Sarasota, was convicted Wednesday of felony aggravated cruelty to animals and tampering with evidence stemming from the sickening incident, which saw the critter stabbed with a pitchfork, doused with gasoline and set alight, according to the Sarasota Sheriff’s Office.
In her viral Snapchat video shot in August 2022, Kincheloe is heard callously joking, “We just toasted his ass, who’s hungry?” The footage then shows the charred remains of the raccoon inside a garbage bin.
The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office’s Agricultural Unit learned of Kincheloe’s stomach-turning Snapchat antics on August 11, according to the agency’s new release.
The clips narrated by Kincheloe showed a small raccoon sitting in a dumpster behind a restaurant in the 5700 block of Sarah Avenue.
Despite the raccoon seen staring at the camera showing no signs of aggression, Kincheloe labeled it “mean.”
In another video, her father, Roddy Kincheloe, 63, is seen “hosing down the dumpster, which is smoking and appears to have been set ablaze.”
Kincheloe initially told detectives that she while she shot the videos and uploaded them to Snapchat, she and her dad merely tried to put out the dumpster fire with water from a gas can.
When deputies seized the canister and tested the liquid inside, it came back positive for being “highly flammable.”
In the course of the investigation, a witness came forward saying that she spoke to Alicia Kincheloe after the incident and that the woman told her that her father “used a pitchfork” to stab the raccoon before the pair headed to lunch.
The father and daughter later returned to the dumpster to find the animal still alive inside the dumpster.
“Alicia poured gasoline on the animal while Roddy set the animal on fire,” officials said.
Kincheloe was then caught on camera using the pitchfork to remove the raccoon’s scorched carcass from the trash receptacle.
Both Kincheloe and her father were arrested on animal cruelty charges.
The woman was also hit with an additional count of evidence tampering for disposing of the dead raccoon off-camera.
“This is obviously just a sick, terrible thing to do,” Sarasota Sheriff Kurt Hoffman said at the time.
Kincheloe faces up to five years in state prison when she is sentenced on Dec. 19.