ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 10 (UPI) -- Police in Alaska are trying to determine if a schoolteacher whose body was found Monday was the victim of a wolf attack, authorities said.
The body of Candice Berner, 32, of Slippery Rock, Pa., was discovered off a gravel road near the town of Chignik Lake, the Anchorage Daily News reported Wednesday.
Berner had been in Chignik less than a week, working as a special education teacher, the Lake and Peninsula Borough School District confirmed.
Co-workers last saw her alive at the end of the workday Monday, district officials said.
"She had made the comment that she wanted to get out and get some fresh air," district officer Rick Luthi said. "We assumed that that meant a run for Candice, because she had a habit of doing that whenever she could."
Alaska State Troopers contacted Berner's father in Pennsylvania, telling him his daughter had been killed in an "animal attack, possibly a wolf attack," the Daily News said.
But investigators want to know if there was another factor in her death.
"The (woman) might have died of something else and wolves might have found the body," said Bruce Woods, spokesman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
