Jon Lender

Charla Nash, of Stamford, Connecticut, pictured March 21, 2012, was so severely mauled by Sandra Herold's 200-pound pet chimpanzee Travis, that she lost her hands and face. Nash received a face transplant in 2010 and is now filing a claim that would allow her to sue the state of Connecticut for allowing a dangerous animal to reside in Herold's home. Nash has not been home since the attack and resides in a Boston-area rehab center. (Mark Mirko/Hartford Courant/MCT)

Chimp attack victim hopes for a better future

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Charla Nash says she still can't remember the brutal attack by a chimpanzee that tore off her face and hands and blinded her on Feb. 16, 2009 -- but she recalls the moment she finally heard a recording of the horrifying 911 call from that day.

People around the world have heard the chimp's owner, Sandra Herold, pleading on that recording with a dispatcher to "send the police up with a gun" to shoot her rampaging, 200-pound pet, Travis, but when Nash heard it on the news, what caught her ear wasn't Herold's frantic voice.

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