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Following the killing of a gorilla and subsequent tensions, she was murdered in her cabin at a remote camp in Rwanda in December 1985. Although Fossey's American research assistant was convicted in absentia, there is no consensus as to who killed her.
Katherine Bouton writes about the murder of Dian Fossey, the conservationist of gorillas who battled poachers in Rwanda.
On December 26, 1985, primatologist and conservationist Dr. Dian Fossey is found murdered in her cabin at Karisoke, a research site in the mountains of Rwanda.
Primatologist and conservationist Dian Fossey was found murdered in her cabin in 1985. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribeAbout Dian Fossey: Secrets i...
Early on the morning of Dec. 27, 1985, Dian Fossey, 53, was found dead in the bedroom of her two-room corrugated-tin cabin. Her face had been slashed in two by the blows of a machete.
The series covers her early life, her move to Africa and habituation of the gorillas, including the famous Digit, who was killed by poachers and led Fossey to create the Digit Fund (now the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund), as well as the various theories about what led to her murder in 1985.
On December 26, 1985, she was discovered murdered near her campsite. Though no assailant was ever identified, it is widely suspected that she was killed by the poachers against whom she had struggled for so long. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica This article was most recently revised and updated by Encyclopaedia Britannica.