From the Anchorage Daily News website:
Oct. 8 (Bloomberg) — A California author and filmmaker who garnered national media attention for his films of close encounters with brown bears was killed and partially eaten by his subjects, the Anchorage Daily News reported.
A bear, or bears, killed Timothy Treadwell, 46, and girlfriend Amie Huguenard, 37, this week near Kaflia Bay on the Alaskan coast, the newspaper said, citing Alaska State Troopers and National Park Service officials. The couple had gone there to live among the bears that were the subject of Treadwell’s 1997 book, “Among Grizzlies.”
Treadwell, a self-proclaimed “eco-warrior,” had developed a cult following among bear lovers. He appeared on David Letterman’s show, “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” and “Dateline NBC,” to talk about bears, the paper said.
The bodies of Treadwell and Huguenard were discovered Monday by the pilot of a Kodiak air taxi that was to pick them up and return them from the wilderness. It isn’t known when the attack happened or what led to it, the paper reported. The couple’s tent was flattened and bears had buried their remains, the Daily News said.