It's definitely a very unusual case. If you read other articles about it some municipalities responded to her by basically giving her a can of gas and telling her to get the heck out of dodge. She also once brought a severed horse leg as evidence for a case and no one was really sure where she got it from.
She's gone by many aliases from what I can tell. Though she did have a history of adopting animals from shelters and hoarding them, I also wouldn't be surprised if the person you're describing is someone else entirely. I've met a lot of people who put a lot of efforts into picking up as many animals as possible under the misguided belief that they're saving them from a worse fate. Rescuers (and rescues) that turn out to be hoarders are unfortunately more common than they should be.
I will also add that I think hoarders require a lot of resources and interventions that many places are unable or unwilling to provide. About a quarter of all hoarders need to be placed into permanent care because of a generalized inability to care for themselves and I think the role of adult protective services really can't be understated here.
The problem with animal hoarding in particular is that what you're seeing is typically concomitant animal neglect and self neglect (and, in some cases, child and/or elder abuse) but the response is often to one or the other rather than to both. Combine that with the complexity and unique nature of hoarding as a crime and it's unsurprising that many places are not particularly well equipped to address hoarding situations in a satisfying and meaningful way. Of course, this woman in particular is an unusual case given the extreme degree of both her hoarding and her manipulative tendencies, but at the same time I do think she would benefit from some level of supervised care even if she would be significantly less amenable to it than the average hoarder.
It might not be the same lady. I was not one of the ones to head up to her place. My general understanding of the situation was that this woman was either squatting or had placed her trailer in some remote acreage expecting nobody would notice, or was a tenant and the landlord was threatening eviction. Either way, authorities approached the house, smelled what they thought was a dead body, and she came out threatening them. During the brief period her door was open they realized that this was a massive animal hoarding situation. The state has had trouble with this woman before in a different area and were trying to treat her delicately.
Someone contacted our community outreach coordinator as he is known for having a way with "crazy cat ladies." Lo and behold, she actually let him visit. Animal control had removed some obvious neglect cases from the exterior of her home, but she had not let anyone inside. She did let our guy in and over the course of like 2 months she slowly let him have a few cats at a time. They were all very malnourished, covered in ringworm and smelled awful. A few had cases that needed surgical care (enucleations, a poorly healed broken limb or 2), and for the most part, that was what she slowly gave us.
The local police decided to give her an ultimatum that she had to get rid of enough cats that the house could be cleaned, then decided the building was not salvageable as the floor had actually collapsed in some areas under feces.
Our guy talked her into giving us everything she was willing to part with. She told us she was keeping her original cats and their families but we could take her less special cats since we had done soo well in rehoming the prior cases. This would drop her from about 97 cats to near 20.
But there were restrictions. She was terrified of government. Was pretty sure that people were trying to poison her and her cats (actually blamed her and their health problems on poisoning... despite living in a port-o-potty. And a few other conspiracy theories. So we could only sent the original guy, and 1 or 2 others to load up 50-70 cats. Our guy was also afraid she would decide to keep whatever we did not get on that run, so those poor people were up there with respirators on, pulling cats from her house for almost 12 hours. They found litters she didn't know she had, several dead bodies, though she tried hard to keep those all stored in her freezer.
Anyway, the whole situation was touch and go from day one because this woman was paranoid, aggressive, and afraid/angry about interactions with the law. We saved a lot of cats and spayed and neutered them all with a couple grants and help from Wyoming.
I only know this much because I helped give care to many of these cats and helped with surgeries. They tried to keep as much as they could confidential, and I really got the impression that Wyoming was trying to solve it outside of court and legal action. Just, if it was the same woman, the names, the details... some of the finer points of her history would fit.
And then the Google account... it just would all fit. It is entirely possible that my brain would just like to consolidate these women together so I can feel like there are fewer of them in the world. I am aware there are others (The woman who had 80 rabbits seized from her home a few years ago, tried to keep them from being adopted out, tried to sue the county for euthanising some of the very ill and malnourished ones, and managed to keep a position of authority in the House Rabbit Association.), but part of me is probably trying to decrease their reality by merging them.