Investigators find remains of third dog at officer’s home

Evidence showed that Dale, a yellow lab assigned to Peabody in 2007, was also killed by a fatal shooting in 2012, the marshal’s office said.

“He is very, very upset about the death of his dog”, he said.

Peabody claimed the pup died from “choking on a toy” at the time, shortly after retiring from the force, the marshal’s office said.

More recently, Peabody claimed he had accidentally left Inca, a Belgian Malinois, alone in the auto to die, forgetting that the animal was in the vehicle.

During the search for Dale’s remains at Peabody’s former home, authorities found the remains of a third dog, a 10-year-old Belgian Malinois, the office said in a statement to BuzzFeed News.

Peabody, a 16-year police veteran, was charged last month in the deaths of two other police dogs, including a 4-year-old Belgian Malinois named Inca that died from a heatstroke after being left in a patrol auto and the 2012 shooting death of a yellow Labrador named Dale.

Chief Marshal Ron Hunton said the remains recovered at the home may have been from the so-called grandmother of Inca.

The canine was not a police dog and is believed to have been Peabody’s pet.

Back in June, police said Peabody arrived to his home in Cherokee County and turned his patrol vehicle off, leaving the 4-year-old dog in the back of the auto.

Daniel Peabody, 50, was arrested in June after he left his K-9 partner, Inca, in his patrol auto for nearly three hours on June 10 in Cherokee County, Georgia.

Peabody resigned before he was arrested. However, it was later revealed he was killed in 2012, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.

Peabody was released on a $22,400 bond. She was also charged with operating a boarding and training business inside a residential district and too close to a residential property.

“The remains of Dale have not yet been found”, he said.

“We, at this point, have no solid information as to the location of Dale’s remains”, he added.