Nun IS $3 iber 20 183 .00 STIGMATA THE PROJECT STIGMA REPORT ON THE CONTI INVESTIGATION INTO THE OCCURRENCE OF ANIMAL NUING MUTILATIONS STIGMATA SUBSCRIPTIONS: This issue, STIGMATA no. 20, will be published in 1983, One or two issues will be published in 1984. Bvei paid $5.00 ($10*00 foreign) for a 1983 subscription will also receive the only edition ■yone who has the 1984 issue (s). Both issue number 20 (order separately) and a 1984 subscription (ore are $3,00 each (U.S. or Canadian). Foreign subscriptions (to all co< U.S. and Canada): $5.00 for either year, $10.00 for both. ler separately) intries outside the BACK ISSUES: The following back issues are currently available (wh a cost of $2.00 each(U.S, and Canada) and $3,00 each (to all other bers 13, 14, 16 and 17. The following back issues are available (supply of these is more lin $3.00 each (U.S, and Canada) and $4.00 each (to all other countries 10, 11 (a few of these four remain). 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S. t Can, stent publishing or spring of 1984, lumber of them, irding CRUX: This only a year be- ), $5.00(foreign). 351 1982 - A SUMMARY In assessing the 1982 mutilation situation, we r ve elected to present our summary on a state-by-state basis. There were some interesting cases - some exhibiting new, additional quirks and characteristics - with a surfeit of reports mirroring past mu¬ tilation events virtually ad nauseam . Increasingly - especially among ranchers in the West and Midwest - there is a tendency for the livestock-owner not to report a mutilation to the local constabulary, fearing (with reason, unfortunately) that said law enforcement agency will be ineffective at best in conducting a mutilation investi¬ gation which will produce results. Although it must be emphasized that there are still some law enforcement officers and agencies in the land that will attempt to in¬ vestigate these matters with diligence and objectivity; some have thrown in the towel (some sheriffs even refuse to investigate mutilations). In spite of these and other myriad obstacles, the "investigation", such as it is, continues - in the hope that with some combination of patience, persistence and optimism * the reach for under¬ standing and revelation will not go unrewarded. ARIZONA Although there have continued to be rumors regarding the occurrence of livestock mu¬ tilations in Arizona, few details have emerged. However, the following report was com¬ piled by E. Edwin Austin of the Mutilation Data Center (4623 E. Washington - Apt, 20; Orange, California 92669): The Maricopa County Sheriff's office in Fboenix reports in excess of 150 coyotes, dogs, caten a few possum, mutilated and/or skinned in urban, suburban and rural Maricopa County, Arizona. Except for one unconfirmed report from Show Low (ed.note: Navajo County, eastern Arizona), the in¬ cidents were confined to Maricopa County, Heads and legs were cut off; the animals were disemboweled, a few skinned (note: This description parallels a group of about 20 cats killed in Irvine, California about two years ago). Inaccurate media coverage stresses cult connection. A sheriff's spokesman says there was only one such incident, involving U greyhounds and one possum. Pieces of paper were found at the scene, marked with the Star of David, modified to include circle in center with diagonal line from upper right to lower left. Three sources (2 in law enforcement) report unreliable information (from nationally-circulated tabloid) that a similar series began in San Jose, California at the time of this series dying off to its current Copyright 1933 by Thomas R. Adams 352 ARIZONA (continued) 3 low level* The time frame for the incidents in Maricopa County was from January 1982 to mid-March 1982* During this time, the ASFCA was the in¬ vestigative agency* When the sheriff's office took over in mid-March* the rate of occurrence dropped sharply. There was heavy local media cover¬ age and substantial public reaction* but an unusually low level of panic* mob syndrome or vigilanteism. Only a few neighborhood watches came out of it and those operate with the police, not independent, I have carefully gone through five books about symbols and their meanings* The circle with a diagonal line from upper right to lower left is used in only one context that I can find. In international road-sign systems* it means "prohibited". It is used on l y superimposed on another symbol, to indicate the prohibited act (e* g,, the symbol superimposed on a left mm arrow means "left turn prohibited")- Thus, the symbol superimposed on the Star of David would mean "Jews prohibited", in the context of implied threat of lethal brutal violence for those who fail to heed the warning* Des¬ pite the obvious Nazi implications* I am inclined to discount the possible presence of a true cult or terrorist group as such* The woods are full of tiny groups of drug addicts and drug traffickers who try to use "cultism" as a way to capitalize on the U.S, Supreme Court's ruling in th$ Native American Church (Navajo Indian) case, that the use of drugs in religious ritual is protected by the First Amendment. ARKANSAS MARCH - Third Week - Carroll County Location: Manley West property, near U.S, Highway 62, between Berryville and Green Forest. The last reported (known) mutilation in Carroll County was about two years previously. To the west is Benton County* the scene (along with Washington County* to the south of Benton) of one of the most notable and publicized mutilation waves of the late 1970’s* In the Manley West case, his $800 polled Hereford cow was found dead with its tongue* one ear and female genitalia missing. There was no blood in evidence and Deputy Sheriff George Currie speculated that the blood might have been drained (ho necropsy performed, apparently). Currie reported that "the nature of the cuts on the carcass ruled out any possibility of another animal killing the cow. A Carroll County source who requests anonymity informs us that a horse was found dead in the same area and apparently under similar circumstances (exact date of this oc¬ currence unknown). (Source: STAR-PROGRESS: Berryville, AR; April I* 1982)* CALIFORNIA (see next page) 353 4 CALIFORNIA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA JULY - San Mateo County In the first week of July, two cows were found dead with "prime cuts" removed with "surgical precision" - probably by "professional rustlers" as authorities were convin¬ ced the milk cows were killed for their meat. On Thursday night, July Bth, and about two miles to the north of the cow-butchering site* two horses worth about $18,000 and $3500 were found dead, having been shot 6 to 8 times with a small-caliber fire¬ arm {likely a .22). The horses were found in a,pasture in the San Gregorio area* near the coast south of San Francisco and near Highway 1. Their tails were cut off "with a blunt instrument", apparently while the animals were still alive. Two addi¬ tional horses m the pasture were shot and wounded, were "intact", and were expect¬ ed to recover. One of the wounded was a $75,000 horse carrying a foal worth four times that. A total of $15,000 was being offered as a reward by the JFteninsula Humane Society in San Mateo County. Kurt Lapham, animal control manager for the Society, told the SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER (7-13-82) that he "doesn't know why someone would kill a horse and take its tail. Horse hair is used in quite a few commercial products, like bows for fiddles, but it's not something you would want so badly you'd go out and kill a horse. It's not like elephants' tusks". Members of the controversial "Christ Family” cult, who live along the Arizona/Calif¬ ornia border, had been seen in the area, and though local officials offered a "near- dismissal" of the cult as potential suspects, residents were still "wary” of the group, led by one Charles Franklin McHugh, who prefers the moniker "Jesus Christ Lightning Amen". But the idea of cults-as-culprits were not dismissed entirely. Humane officer Kurt Lapham told the SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER (7-11-82): "There has been an alert put out for a religious cult coming down from Oregon or Northern California. There have been problems in Oregon with people killing animals and removing testicles and internal organs". Lapham said members of a cult in the Montara and Granada areas further north of Half Moon Bay dress in long* hooded, flowing white robes, and one member of the group was seen near the ranch 10 days ago. But he says he doesn't know the group's name and no witnesses have linked any members to the brutal shooting and mutilation of the horses. ..... Lapham's deputy, Sgt.Curt Ransom, said six to eight small-caliber bullets, "probably from a .22", were fired into each of the two horses that died. He said their tails were cut off three inches from their flanks while they were still alive. On Tuesday* July 13th, three severed dog paws - two of them stuck to mile markers by the side of a country road - were found in Pescadero, not far from the pasture 354 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA (continued) where the two horses were killed and two wounded. Compared to t removal of the horses’ tails, the paws were sliced off with sometl were thought to be from the same dog, about the size of a terrier tie blunt-instrument :liing sharp. The paws The University of California at Davis autopsied the two dead, tail caliber bullets and fragments were removed, Hus, one horse had a which the pathologist thought might have happened when the horse [less horses, ,22 broken vertebra, fell down a ravine. (Sources: SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINERfluly ll,1982;July 13,1982), S CHRONICLE Quly lo, 1982;July 14,1982), SAN JOSE NEWS0uly 14,19$ wire service articles. Credit: Lucius Farish(UFO NEWSCLIPPING Box 220; Plumerville,Arkansas 72127), Bill Banks, Michael Richard Toronto, George Wunder) NORTHERN CALIFORNIA (continued) AN FRANCISCO 12), and numerous ^SERVICE; Route 1, Henry Rosenthal, NOVEMBER-DECEMBER - Solano County - City of Fairfield Two incidents occurred in which slaughtered animals and apparent were found in city parks. According to the Vallejo TIMES HERAL® The most recent discovery came the day after Christmas' wheii horse¬ back riders came upon the carcasses of a German Shepherd aiad two cats in Rockville Park. A witness to the grisly scene, who asked not to be identified, said there were burned candles and markings on th* ground surrounding the animals’ bodies, leading police to believe a cult may be involved, "Their throats were slit", the witness said, "It was very neat, not messy in any way. That was what was so sinister about it". In late November, police found the remains of a slain cat in Allenwood Rark. The animal's throat was cut and candles and Satanic-like markings were obser¬ ved at the scene, Police are viewing the slayings as "isolated incidents". Police Sgt, Jerry Shephard told the newspaper that they had no leai "just the fact there’s been two cases where animals have been sac|: tic-type incidents", (Source: Vallejo, California TIMES HERALD; Js Credit: Lucius Farish/UFONS), SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA cult-paraphernalia of 1-6-83: .i5s or suspects, rificed inritualis- lajnuary 6, 1983; We cannot recommend the Los Angeles area to felines, judging from incidents occur¬ ring in the Laguna Hills area of Orange County (southeast of Los Angeles) and then in 355 6 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (continued) the Agoura area west of Los Angeles proper- We will begin our 1982 survey of this area with a look at a series of reports from the Laguna Hills region in December of 1981. Six cats were killed and partially eaten in December* 1981, by what was thought to be a coyote or dog* The k illin gs occurred in the midst of housing tracts but the killer was never seen or heard* A state game and fish officer told the SADDLEBACK VALLEY NEWS(12-23-81) that he doubted the killer was a coyote, stating: "It sure doesn't sound like a coyote* They'll generally eat the entire animal or drag off the carcass. One of my thoughts was it could be a great horned owl or a hawk". He didn't totally discount the possibility the killer could be a dog or "weird coyote". There was one incident where children saw a German Shepherd with a cat in its mouth* which it soon dropped. For more on similar (and maybe dissimilar) animal deaths and mutilations which began in Orange County in 1979, see "Mutilation Data Center Report" in STIGMATA no* 17. Things have been just as bad - worse, actually - west of Los Angeles and the San Fer¬ nando Valley, in the area of Agoura and Westlake Village. One count cites over 150 cats killed in the area over a six-year period, through 1982. In 1982, sixteen "cat mu¬ tilations" had been reported by mid-summer. In August 1982, noted paranormal au¬ thor/investigator D. Scott Rogo explained to us that, although there had been a little television coverage of the 1982 cases, nothing had been published in the newspapers about it (that changed in September, as we'U note below). Rogo told Project Stigma, in a letter dated July 25: I thought perhaps these mutilations might have something to do with the cattle (mutilation) mystery, so I met with animal control officials today on the incidents. It seems that the cats are surgically mutilated, with genitals and all internal organs removed. Usually the cats are cut in two. No blood is left at the site of the mutilation, (author's emphasis) After advising and consulting with the sheriff s office and other officials, Rogo wrote in August 1982 that there did not seem to be any doubt but that the cat mutilations were being conducted by an aberrant human* "some nut". Rogo reported that the cats are often placed on the doorsteps of their owners. Plus* they were being killed before being mutilated, Rogo had heard "through the grapevine" that there had been "other mutilations" in California. An animal control official told him two horses had been mu* tilated in the Los Angeles area in 1982, but the official would provide no details. Rogo 356 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (continued) also learned of a report of a classic cow mutilation in the Tehachap:L Mountains (north of Los Angeles) in 1981; but, again, no details available. The cat killings and mutilations became increasingly hard-to-ignore, 8, 1982, they finally made the print media- On that date the LOS A reported that, since 1976* about 200 cats had been killed and disme Conejo Valley, a fairly isolated suburban area (including Westlake V: Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley. Recounted was the most that time), in which a ballpark groundskeeper at Newbury Park High remains of a cat on the field. As Scott Rogo had described, the cat right behind the front legs, and it was a perfect slice job, like a marked groundskeeper Joe Villarrial)* Two similarly-mutilated cats Calabasas, 15 miles to the east, and police suspected that the same responsible for the offenses in both areas* The killings reached an July and August of 1982, with 25 mutilated cats reported. The incide difficult to ignore, and public awareness increased* and on September tfcELES TIMES mbered in the Ullage) west of Recent case (at School found the was "cut in half :cher did it"(re- were found in killer (s) might be ill-time high in nts became more buti Sgt. Martin Broad of the Los Angeles County Animal Control Depart that the cats were being disemboweled and cut intfr sections with ft co skill". Additionally, the TIMES reported: ment told the TIMES nsiderable surgical There is seldom any blood on the cats or signs of struggle, leading police to conclude that the killings are done elsewhere and the bodies are returned to the scene and left in plain view, presumably for maximum shock value. Usually, the victims have been family pets, rather than strays; often they have a record of never wandering far from home. the As public interest accelerated, some residents began to fear that point, might no longer be satisfied with feline atrocities and turn to October 1982, a public meeting was called in the Westlake Village a: to the populace that the cat killings had actually been conducted by In July of 1982, Sheriffs Deputy Susan Cross of the Malibu Sheriffs other deputy had been assigned full-time to the cat mutilation case. Deputy Cross announced that "it was ironic", but that, indeed, the t 1976** were apparently the work of coyotes. She remarked that she worked since July to track down what they thought was a human cat She reiterated that the cats had been cut in half or "slit from the tl ach and disemboweled". cat killer, at some human children* hi tea - to announce coyotes. Station and one In January of 1983 at killings since and others had killer/mutilator, liroat to the storn-* 357 8 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (continued) **Actually, bizarre cat killings in the Los Angeles area go back as indicated in the following Associated Press release of October 16, 19 A series of cat killings in the wealthy suburb of Brentwood - pe}: hands of devil worshippers - has stirred the anger of residents police. Residents with $100,000 homes in the area near the UC have been plagued by the cat killings in which the bodies of pet found either on the front porch or lawn of their owners, tf There no blood or fur left at the scene”. Police Lt 0 Roy Sails said in 'This does away with the theory that coyotes from the nearby Mountains have been responsible for these weird deaths”. rhaps at the and puzzled I^A campus felines are is absolutely an interview. Shnta Monica Kenneth Williams, district supervisor for the West Los Angeles Animal Shelter, said some cats "have been mutilated, but we don't know whether it is ritualistic or some person is mad at the world". He said he knew of 12 such killin gs in the Brentwood area. Sails said ritualistic killings by some occult group were a possibility, "but it seems unlikely that they would advertise that they are in the area by leaving the carcasses 1 Sources: DALLAS MORNING NEWS (October 16,1974); LOS ANGELES CONTRA COSTA TIMES Qanuary 27, 1983). Credits: D. Scott Rogo, Ginny Cooney (Alive Enterprises), Peter Guttilla via Lucius Parish, COLORADO In 1982, mutilation reports from across the country did not come cl of 1975 - or even 1980. However, reports persisted in some areas hit historically, such as Northern New Mexico, the Seattle/Tacoma shall see here. Central Colorado. On April 1, 1983, KMGH-TV in Denver re-broadcast the mutilation Strange Harvest", produced, written, directed, edited and narrated Howe. The documentary had originally aired in May 1980. In the aul Howe received 18 mutilation reports from Colorado, Wyoming, Utah summary of Colorado cases follows: SEPTEMBER 10 - DOUGLAS COUNTY Location: Glenn Daniels ranch, about 20 miles northeast of Castle heard barking around 3:00 AM that morning; but apparently no one if they did they saw nothing. After daybreak, a 1,000-lb*, 15-year- was found dead and apparently mutilated on the Daniels ranch. The moved with a clean, generally circular cut. A 12-inch hole(diam.), far as 1974, as 74: TIMES (Sept. 8, 1982); Thomas A* LeVesque, /UFO NS. ose to the intensity i:hat have been hard- area and, as we documentary, "A by Linda Moulton 'irumn of 1982, Linda and Kansas. A Rock, Dogs were got up to check, or old black Angus cow udder had been re- a bo lit 6-8 inches 358 COLORADO (continued) deep, had been cut under the tail. Daniels said it looked on one part cn :hn though the knife or cutting instrument had slipped while making the i ining the ground, Daniels said it appeared that the animal had been by its hind feet as it struggled to get away. Although the tail was ting Douglas County deputy noted that hair had apparently been pulleji The animal's eyes and tongue were present. The tongue was protrui like magpies had pecked on it. Approximately l| inches was missing the left ear. Daniels said it looked cut off, but a veterinarian he told him a coyote had chewed on the ear* The veterinarian found tl was broken, and he felt that either a bull jumped upon her or she ; cow, breaking her back. Daniels said the old cow was barren, that bulls in the pasture, and he doubted that this cow would have Jumped After 3-4 days the carcass began to bloat and began to exhibit moro results of scavengers. Both the veterinarian and the deputy appeared unusual elements of the case in favor of a natural-causes explanatio porter who visited the scene was spooked by it all and apparently that a cult was involved. She refused to send any information on mail, fearing she might somehow incur the wrath of the cult. of the incision as ound cut* Exam- dragged downhill ijitact, an investiga- d out of the tail, c^ing and it looked from the tip of lied to the scene t the animal 1 s back urnped on another there had been no d on another one. of the ravaging to downplay the n. A newspaper re¬ nte convinced case through the becat the rid wa:3 SEPTEMBER 16 - EL PASO COUNTY Location: Dzuris ranch near Calhan, about 30 miles east of Coloracji tilation-in-daylight* It was a pretty, sunny day when Bill and Linda their herd of cattle around noon (they had some cows that were a bo was well. They had lunch at the house then spent the rest of the outside near the house, neither seeing or hearing anything out-of-th 5:00 PM, Mr. Dzuris left in his semi-truck to pick up a load of ha mile west of the ranch driveway, he saw a cow laying about 100-150 They had checked that area around noon and there had been nothing on but stopped at the next telephone and asked his wife to go out ai he saw* He couldn't tell if it was calving - or dead* The latter had been cut off and blood still dripped from some of the wounds. Linda Moulton Howe: 1f I was horrified at the thought of what could light when we had checked the cows only a few hours before 11 * But just the shock-of-the-new; the Dzurises had two heifers mutilated feet apart (and about a mile from the 1982 site) with their recturns time, a 6-year-old female Hereford-Angus cross-breed was laying Although the face, mouth and head were undisturbed, El feso Countjy D, R, Kelsey noted that some blood and fluid appeared to have dri] area. Approximately half of the animal's udder had been removed ("kind of a square shape, cut with a knife clean and smooth")* Two had been cut cleanly across about one inch from the bag. The recta! in 9 o Springs - a mu- Dzuris checked ut to calve). All ;ernoon working e-ordinary. Around y. About one-half yards oft the road, there. Dzuris went check the animal the case* E&rts Mrs, Dzuris told this in broad day- f|ier shock was not 1979 - found 100 "cored out". This on its right side* Sheriff's Deputy off of the head Lth a clean vertical remaining teats 1 area had been cut pj>ed with a 359 K> COLORADO (continued) out in a vertical oval or egg-shaped wound about a foot wide and 6-8 inches deep; the tail remained intact. Deputy Kelsey noted that "it would seem that these areas were cut by some type of instrument rather than being torn away by some type of animal". Mrs. Eteuris reported that the animal's hair appeared to have been rubbed off on the front of the back legs near the hooves. When Dznris dragged the cow away from the site a few days later* all the hair came off on the underside of the animal as it was pulled along. And, as we will note below, this was not the last 1982 case wherein half of the udder would reportedly be removed. SEPTEMBER 13 - EL PASO COUNTY Along the same road near which the Dzurises would find their cow on the 16th f three people were caught-in-the-act while butchering a cow - at least in this case a succulent hindquarter of beef would appear to have motivated the culprits. A ranch foreman, Bob Heath, accompanied by his daughter, was repairing a windmill when he noticed that cattle in a nearby pasture appeared disturbed. A white Chevrolet was on the land, which belonged to the Bennett Ranch, and Heath felt it was out-of-place there. Heath told re¬ porters Jean Rasner and Mont Gaddy of the RANCHLAND FARM NEWS (Simla, Colorado; September 16, 1982): "From our point at the windmill, we were out of sight of the pickup. We decided to go take a look and saw the pickup drive away. When we got closer, we saw two people working on something in the pasture. At first we thought they'd killed an antelope or something, but when we got closer to the gate, we saw a dead steer and two men lying on either side of it like they were trying to hide from us". Heath said his first reaction was to draw out his rifle, but his daughter convinced him to go for help. At that point they went to the E^t Dawson residence, where Dawson notified authorities. Heath and his daughter then circled around back toward the east side of the pasture to head off the suspects if they tried to escape in that direction, while Dawson headed up the road toward the suspects. Dawson described the ensuing action: "When they saw me coming, they took off and headed toward me (westbound) on Sweet Road. They went by so fast I couldn't see the license plate number, so I wheeled around and took off after them. I really had my Subaru humpin' trying to catch up with them. In fact I didn't think I was going to, but they had to slow up quite a bit at the bend going into Bsyton. I know the road a little better and could keep my foot in it more, so that's where I finally got close e- nough to get their license plate number. The El Paso County Sheriff's Department arrested the three people involved not faraway, with the left hindquarter of the steer in the pickup. When interrupted by Heath, they were 360 COLORADO (continued) ri in the process of removing a front quarter- The cutting was done very adroitly and it was unclear just how the steer was killed, though the wife of the steer’s owner pointed out an apparent bullet hole in the steer’s belly. The suspects that were arrested were: Gerd D. Arnold, age 36; Michael Badial, 37 and Martha Ann Muehl, 38. All three eventually posted bond. SEPTEMBER 29 - EL PASO COUNTY A Mrs. Kobilan is Bill Dzuris's sister (see Sept. 16) and she lives on a ranch in the same general area. She was up late one night in mid-September when she heard the sound of a helicopter outside* She walked out and around the balcony which completely encircles the house* She saw nothing but could still hear what seemed to be a helicop¬ ter, with a sound so low that she could "hear the wind through the props"; still noth¬ ing but stars could be seen in the clear sky. She felt afraid, and when her dog growl¬ ed and walked away from her back into the house, she followed. She was suspicious, though, and she reported the apparent chopper-without-lights to the sheriff’s office. Mrs. Kobilan told Linda Moulton Howe that this was not the first time in recent weeks when she has heard a chopper but been unable to see it. Then, around 3:00 AM on the morning of September 29th, she was sitting up against a heating pad in an attempt to alleviate a back ache when she not only heard a helicopter, but this time she could see it out her window - a clear yellow light, flying in low from the bluffs north of Peyton toward the Larry Mikita ranch (see below). She stepped outside in time to watch it fly out of sight fcnd hearing). The next morning, Larry Mikita found one of his cows, a six-year-old, down in an area of wheat stubble on his ranch. Mikita said the straw around the head of the animal ap¬ peared trampled down. He felt that someone had been on their knees working on the cow's head. The cow lay on its left side, with no signs of a struggle. Mikita told Lin¬ da Howe: ’"You could see her hoof print in the soil right next to her hoof - she layed right down there with no reflexes after she died - like lightning hit her". The right ear bad been removed at the scalp, in a "jagged circle". There was blood inside the ear cavity. The right eye had also been removed along with part of the hide around it; a- gain, there was blood in the eye socket. The lips and hide on the right side of the face had been removed in a fashion now familiar, exposing the jaw and teeth. The tongue was cut off ("a vertical cut straight up and down"), leaving about three inches remain¬ ing. Teeth were removed from the top and bottom on the exposed side, leaving only back teeth showing. Aside from the blood in the ear and eye cavities, there was very little in evidence, just a tiny amount on the ground. The rear portion of the animal had not been disturbed, in contrast to the Dzuris case (above)- That night, Mikita went back to the site and saw coyotes about 200 feet from the carcass; but they did not come any closer. In fact, as of Monday, October 4th, the coyotes still had not disturbed the car¬ cass, Mikita said the only access to that pasture (by vehicle, anyway) requires passage past his house. Mikita said he declined to notify the sheriff's department because (he 361 12 COLORADO (continued) told the RANCHLAND FARM NEWS): "It wouldn’t have done any gooc". he W) thi* re EARLY OCTOBER - EL PASO COUNTY Location: near Rush, eastern part of county; Don Bingham (pseudonym. Don and his brother Paul (pseudonym) both suffered mutilations in tl fied by " perfectly clean, circular cuts". In 1978 another was found missing from its flank and its head lying in a "crazy position". The 1982 Don found a three-or-four-year-old cow down in an unusual pos Don felt - she had been running or trotting and been "zapped" to the: had been in a pasture on the north side of a fence. But when found south side of the fence, as though she had thrown herself against torn loose with the cow falling to the other side. Her back legs we: the front legs underneath, in an erect "sitting up" position. Bingham cow had been dead for 3-4 days and was probably killed around Octo turn and one ear were missing. The ear had been taken from right no surrounding hide missing. A strip of flesh was missing from acrl ham didn’t check the mouth for the teeth and tongue and he didn’t to see if the udder was present. Around 3:00 AM on one of the mo: period (not certain that it was the night of death), a man baling hay bright, mercury-vapor-like light moving at or near ground level thr< At the time he thought someone was checking the well when he later no well in that pasture. tii mine OCTOBER 27 - WASHINGTON COUNTY Location: a ranch near Lindon. Linda Moulton Howe learned that a mutilated on the night of October 26-27, although the horse had beei(i previous day. The carcass was found 2^ miles from a ranch house, missing flush with the head. An oblong 2-to-3-inch-wide area of hid around the vagina. A tiny blood spot was noted on the right shoulder (dewclaws) were cleanly cut off of the legs; the one on the right fro present. On the 29th a few drops of what looked like blood appeared needle-size spots on the animal's back, just about the time bloat be No scavenging animals had disturbed the carcass during the first fe LATE OCTOBER - HUERFANO COUNTY Animal Mutilation Probe Director David Perkins reports that a rancty in south-central Colorado, suffered his third mutilation since 1975. penis had been removed, leaving a twelve-inch oval wound. One ear a "clean knife cut", and the anal area had been "cored out" to a de The steer died on the same weekend during which townspeople in Ga hovering lights over the area of the victim's ranch for three nights ) ranch. In 1975 ir herds, typi- ith a strip of hide n, on October 11, ition, as though - ground. The cow !3he was on the gate and it had out behind her, estimated that the ber 7th. The rec- kt the ear hole, with oss the jaw. Bing- the carcass over gs during this for Bingham saw a ough the pasture, realized there was ifnare was killed and alive and well the Both ears were .g was taken from Three "chestnuts?' >|nt leg was still on about 5 or 6 gan to be evident, days after death. w ier near Gardner, The year-old steer's was severed with pth of 18 inches, rdner saw bright in a row. One night. 362 COLORADO (continued) 13 the wife of a local law enforcement officer was in her kitchen when she suddenly felt she was ,f being watched” She looked out the window and saw what she described as a "saucer-shaped" object, with red, blue and green lights, moving erratically over the area west and south of Greenhorn fteak (the highest point in the Wet Mountains) - the same area in which the mute-victim's ranch is located. The witness was "frightened" by the sight. NOVEMBER 22 - WELD COUNTY Location: the Faulkner (pseudonym, name on file) ranch, near the Wyoming border. Ran¬ cher Faulkner and his sons check their pastures every other day. When they checked on Saturday, November 20th, nothing was amiss* At mid-morning on Monday the 22nd, a 9-year-old Charolais cow, weighing about 1500 lbs* and valued at a dollar-a-pound, was found dead near a trail road leading to a water tank. This was a cow that had been shown at a number of breed shows and fairs and it could easily have been approached by people. Mr. Faulkner covered the carcass with a plastic tarpaulin and weighted down the edges to protect from predator damage (assuming that there would have been any) before he could call someone to the site. A Weld County Sheriffs deputy investigated the site and, on November 23rd, an area veterinarian (who requests anonymity) perform¬ ed a necropsy at the site. About half of the animal's udder had been cut away (see Dzuris case above). The right section of the udder was missing and two teats on the left side of the udder were missing. The vulvular area had been excised ^bout 5 inches into the pelvis), leaving the rectum intact* There was a hole in the animal's forehead approximately 2mm in diameter tapering to 1mm in diameter on the inside of the cran¬ ium. One of the eyeballs was missing and the veterinarian later told Linda Howe that is was the removal of this item and the precise fashion in which it was done that a- mazed him most of all, certifying - at least to his own satisfaction - that this was an out-of-the-ordinary event. He found evidence of some hemmorrhage in the pia mater membrane as though, he felt, something was injected into the brain. His best guess as a cause of death, in fact, was "possible injection of material into brain with unknown object without causing cerebral trauma". The brain was removed for laboratory analy¬ sis but apparently no meaningful results were obtained. As of December i$th f no coy¬ otes had touched the remains of the carcass. Credits: David Perkins, Shirley Rickard, Martha Thompson - and a very special thanks tp Linda Moulton Howe for the majority of our Colorado data. IOWA FEBRUARY THROUGH APRIL - POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTY Location: Carter Lake area, suburban Omaha, Nebraska. Four dogs were found dead at an intersection on February 15th and one dog was found on April 14th - with bums, stab wounds and a metal rod imbedded in one carcass* All five dogs were large breeds* In 363 14 IOWA (continued) the last week of April, a cat was found with its head apparently twi legs twisted or torn off. An Omaha Humane Society official said the dogs matched those of dogs reported missing from around the Omaha tunate series of episodes - but most likely not linked with the "class i< scenario. (Source: LINCOLN (NB) JOURNAL, 5-1-82; Credit - Ray W. B KANSAS sited off and three description of the area. An unfor- ic mutilation" oeche). DECEMBER 11 - COWLEY COUNTY Location: Orville Bair ranch near Burden (Cowley County is southeast that Saturday morning, Bair found a 550-lb.» 7-8-month-old bull calf ure. One eyeball and one ear were missing, taken cleanly. The hide face had been cut away, and a "good portion" of the tongue was mis^ area and the genitals had been excised. It was suspected that the bl ed, but this was concluded as a result of the lack of blood or evide] autopsy was performed. A paramedic who lives nearby come to the how "surgical" the wounds looked. Deputy Craig King of the sheriff* attempted to take photographs, but his camera would not function, ma that normally coyotes would be expected to "start in" on the can The carcass was fed upon, but it did not begin until "several days entered the pasture and passed about 100 yards from the calf, but near the carcass. It was quail season at that time and it was theor have driven into the pasture. There were indications of additional mutilation activity in central and sas; hit few if any details have emerged. of Wichita), On dead in his past- on one side of the lug. The rectal had been drain- e of bleeding; no Site and exclaimed office arrived and r told Project Stig- dass right away, later. Jeep tracks re were no tracks id that hunters may ood no Bat the; west-central Kan- (Sources: COWLEY COUNTY REPORTER, December 16, 1982. Credits: Bster Guttilla via Lucius Farish (UFO Newsclipping Service;Humerville,Arkansas); Orville Bair; Linda Moulton Howe) NEBRASKA ill JUNE (first half) - CHASE COUNTY Two Hereford heifers were found in a grass pasture - the udder, vut missing from both carcasses. There were no tracks nor any blood site. The sheriff would not respond, would not even come out to Inve; he didn't want to "get involved" (ed. comment: with that kind of milque mem, it’s a good thing that Chase County is sparsely populated). Boeche; Fortean Research Center; Lincoln, Nebraska). and anus were evidence at either stigate, claiming toast law enforce- Ray W. (Source 364 NEBRASKA (continued) DECEMBER - MADISON COUNTY Location: Jim Lehman farm* north of Norfolk- On Friday, December of a 750-lb., 7-month-old purebred Simmenlal heifer was found alonj U.S. Highway 81. Deputy Sheriff Darrell Grebe reported that both e The ear tags had been removed, with one on the ground and one L leg- The right front leg had been "severed cleanly”, according to and flesh up the right side from where the leg had been to the face excised. And a 9-inch, half-moon cut was noted on the right flank, ported that there was no trace of scavengers at the site, plus very blood or bleeding. While at the scene. Grebe saw a dog approach a: cass and leave without touching it. Grebe told the Norfolk, Nebraska (December 15, 1982) that "it appeared the animal was cut with a ve that there was no indication that it had been shot"* Grebe called the usual, very unusual"* Farmer Lehman was "kind of sick" at losing "one of my best purebred calves". (Sources: Ray W. Boeche; Forte. Lincoln, Nebraska - Carol Werkmeister; Study on Animal Mutilation IS 3rd, the carcass g a fence line near Ars were missing, on the right hind hman, plus hide seemed to have been Deputy Grebe re- little evidence of sniff at the car- DAILY NEWS Fy sharp knife and whole event "un- the $1,000 animal. Research Center; s; Madison, NB) yiag Le nd an In May of 1982 there were persistent rumors of human mutilations coin. Most commonly the story would claim that young boys had bee3 ted in public restrooms - but there was never any evidence whatsoe were anything more than just that. In mid-autumn, a Texas truck load of livestock to a facility in Lincoln, While unloading, he over! other people discussing the livestock mutilations which had been goii and the impression gained was that the cases under discussion were These cases may have gone unreported, officially, which may expla have surfaced. (Sources: Ray W. Boeche; Tommy Roy Blann, Lewisvilji NEW MEXICO It comes as no real surprise that the majority of the 1982 New Mex|ii ports emanated from in or near Rio Arriba County - one of the mo plagued areas in the country. Our information encompasses 13 casei co, all (with one exception) from the northern quarter of the state. (1) JANUARY - RIO ARRIBA COUNTY Eight miles north of the Rio Arriba town of Espanola, the carcass male Hereford was discovered. The rectum and the tongue had been heart was reportedly missing. The were two "needle marks" on the The animal had been seen alive on Friday, the 8th, and was found the next day. State Police Officer Gabe Valdez investigated on the H |n and around Lin- u genitally mut Ha¬ ver that the rumors Iver delivered a rd a number of i|ig on in that area, of recent vintage, ined why no details .e, Texas) diri hea .co mutilation re- it consistently mute- from New Mexi- pf a 5-year-old fe- eut out and the lower abdomen, dead and mutilated (Ith* 365 16 NEW MEXICO (continued) (2) & (3) MARCH - SANDOVAL COUNTY Location: On and near the southern end of the Jicarilla Apache Reservation between the communities of Cuba and Counselor, and just south of the Rio Arriba County line. On March 21, two 5-year-old bulla owned by the Jicarilla Apache tribe were found a quarter-mile apart, dead and mutilated. The bulls, each weighing over 1200 pounds, were thought to have been dead for five or six days. On each, it appeared that the reproductive organs had been removed with a sharp instrument, Ihxt of the wound on one of the animals looked burnt or singed. Tribal ranch caretaker Travis Chavez dis¬ covered the animals and called the State Police. Reporter Mary Frei of the ALBUQUER¬ QUE JOURNAL wrote that (March 31, 1982): ...this was a first for State Police officer Michael Avilucea of Cuba, who wrote the investigative report, Avilucea recalled that Chavez described the bulls as two of the healthiest in the herd, and although most of the bulls are docile, one of the mutilation victims would have been extremely diffi¬ cult to catch, "Each one's got an individual temper and this particular bull, 1 guess you might say, he's the king of the roost", Avilucea said. Avilucea said he believes that the bulls had "an unnatural death" and speculated that an airborne object must have picked them up and later dropped them to the ground. The backs of both bulls were broken, and they were found about a half-mile apart lying partially on their bellies, he said. One of the bulls was in an arroyo, and there were no animal tracks leading to the carcass. Adding to the mystery is that in order to get to the arroyo, the bull would have had to cross another arroyo with a vertical 12-to-15-foot embankment, Avilucea said he has received reports of low-flying aircraft and, as he put iiv Ytfgfats" in the area around the time the bulls were mutilated, (4) MAY - COLFAX COUNTY Around the first of the mouth, a dead 10-year-old cow was found on a ranch near the Colorado line in northeastern New Mexico (NE of Raton). The cow lay on its left side, about 300 feet from a water tank and windmill. According to a Colfax County Sheriff's office report, the cow was "torn open" around the udder area, but all the teats were still present. There was a hole in the right underarm from which blood exited when the cow was turned over. Foam was found near the carcass on ground slightly wet from a light snow. Investigation disclosed that the cow had apparently walked in a 100-foot cir¬ cle (it was not specified whether this 100-foot measurement denoted radius, diameter or circumference; perhaps diameter) - seemingly depositing "foam" from its mouth all along the circular track before finally falling over. Not an obviously "classic" case; natural causes must be considered to explain the evidence. 366 NEW MEXICO (continued) 17 (5) MAY - RIO ARRIBA COUNTY Victim: a six-year-old pregnant cow discovered on May 9th at mid-day. Some would say the real "victim 11 was the cow's owner, Manuel Go me z* Since June of 1975, the Gomez family herd had suffered 9 mutilations, including the one found on May 9th (five cows, two bulls, one heifer, one horse). Probably no other rancher in the country has been so unfortunate in terms of mutilation-victimization. There seems little that the Dulce resident can do beyond counting his herd and asking "Why? T \ The cow found on the 9th was thought to have died more than 24 hours previously. The udder and the tongue were missing, as was part of a lip; all removals appeared to be the result of "clean-cutting" There was no blood on the cuts or around the carcass. The rectum was cut into. The womb remained intact though part of the fetal calf could be seen inside. On the bottom of the right jaw was a banana-shaped "scrape" clear to the bone, and a 2-inch-diameter hole was noted under a back leg, Gomez, whose grandfather homesteaded the family ranch in 1877, has over 150 cows in his herd. But the mute-losses hurt. He lamented to Mary Frei of the ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL (May 31, 1982): "We don't know why they're hitting me. It has to be somebody that has a money and that doesn't come from the ground. They pick them up from the air". Reporter Frei wrote that: Last year Gomez 1 insurance company canceled its policy after he reported the mutilated horse and his fourth mutilated cow, which were both discovered on June 14, "That insurance company was supposed to be a helping hand to the farmer and rancher", Gomez remarked. He found insurance elsewhere but now pays a higher premium. And he's reluctant to report the latest mu¬ tilation. "It's getting to the point where I won't be able to get any insurance", he said. "It's getting serious". On several occasions in weeks preceding the mutilation, "The Light" was seen in the sky over Dulce. Though most often reported with an orange hue, it has also been red, white, even blue, and it frequently comes from the northeast and veers west. Many Dulce residents have seen and have become familiar with the sight, and it is often seen as a precurser to a mutilation. (6) MAY - SANDOVAL COUNTY Location: near the sites of cases 2 and 3 - between Cuba and Counselor at the southern end of the Jicarilla Apache Reservation, on the ranch of Verdelia Gutierrez and her sons. A cow discovered on May 25th, and thought to have been killed and mutilated on the 24th, was missing its reproductive organs (removed with a "sharp, surgical-like 367 T8 NEW MEXICO (continued) instrument”). The right front leg was reported to be broken and bruised. The Gutierrez herd would be struck again - see case no. 10. (?) MAY - SAN JUAN COUNTY On the evening of Friday, May 28, the carcass of a mutilated 6-year-old cow was found on the Truby ranch in the Bloomfield-Aztec area. The cow was thought to have died around the 24th or 26th of the month. Rancher Truby'e wife saw a helicopter in the area on the 24th and another woman saw a bright green helicopter over the Truby ranch on the early morning of the 25th, A head count on the 28th indicated that one cow was missing, thus precipitating the search that turned up the carcass in a wash or guiley, after it had apparently slipped down a nine-foot embankment. Beyond that, there were no signs of a struggle. It was noted that, although the animal was thought to have died several days previously, no scavengers had touched it. Dog and coyote tracks were found in the area, but none came closer than 6 feet from the carcass. The cow's tongue was missing, cut off deep inside the mouth, and all hide and hair had been removed from a section of the bottom left jaw. The rest of the animal remained intact, Sgt. How¬ ard Donaldson of the San Juan County Sheriff’s Office and New Mexico livestock inspect¬ or Mel Miller investigated. They brought along two employees of the El Rase Natural Gas Company, with their geiger counter. They noted abnormally high radiation readings from just around the carcass and extending out to the left for about 10 feet. The highest reading, however, was detected at the cow's mutilated lower jaw. Plus, prints of a large shoe or very flat-heeled boot were found in the sand near the animal's head, ac¬ cording to livestock investigator Miller- The victim cow was a healthy animal with a four-month-old calf, reported ranchers Robert Truby, Sr, and Robert Truby, Jr. The elder Truby exclaimed that: "There’s a bunch of magpies in this area that always go to the dead stock, and they didn’t go to (this one). I ! ve been around cattle all my life, and I'm 66 years old. I've never seen anything like it. It was a real eerie thing. It's some¬ thing we don't understand. Or else we do understand and don't want to come out with it”. Sgt. Donaldson commented: "Something that we can’t explain went on". (8) k (9) JUNE - RIO ARRIBA COUNTY Rancher Joe Garcia found two cows dead in the Chama area. They may have been dead as much as 10 days before being discovered, and were too decomposed for an autopsy. However, State Police Officer Gabe Valdez felt they might have been genuine mutilations, as hide around the jaws had seemingly been cut away cleanly, GO) JUNE - SANDOVAL COUNTY The herd of Verdelia Gutierrez and her sons lost another member (see case no. 6), Vir¬ tually every year around June 14-15, a mutilation is discovered in Rio Arriba or the surrounding counties (Manuel Gomez of Dulce has been the victim on this date several times), A 3-year-old Gutierrez cow was found on June 15th; it had apparently been killed 368 T9 NEW MEXICO (continued) and mutilated on the night of the 14th-15th. The previous morning, a dark green heli¬ copter was spotted by the Gutierrrez boys, as the chopper flew low over the ranch. The cow was found to be missing its uterus, tongue and one eye* One or more ribs were broken* Officer Gabe Valdez thinks this may have occurred as the animal was dropped from the air* The carcass was found soon enough to have been one of the fresh¬ est to turn up in several years, so a veterinarian from Farmington was called in to examine the animal* The vet found the heart very "mushy", much to his surprise* Al¬ though the blood was present, the vet was puzzled over its failure to clot properly* But most puzzling to the veterinarian was the removal of the eyeball, as he was unable to tinderstand how it was done in such a precise manner (sound familar? See Colorado, November 22). 01) JUNE - RIO ARRIBA COUNTY Manuel Gomez of Dulce inspected his herd on June 28 and found his tenth mutilated ani¬ mal since mid-1976 - and his second of 1982 (see case no* 5)* The 5-year-old cow was seen alive on Friday, June 25, and Gomez believed it was mutilated that night. The tongue, upper lip and half of the udder (see Colorado and Utah/Wyoming) were removed in "the usual way". Discussing the mutilations with Manuel Gomez, Mary Frei of the ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL reported (May 31, 1982): The older Gomez is a soft-spoken man until the subject of former FBI agent Ken Rommel's 1980 mutilation investigation comes up. Rommel concluded that natural predators mutilated already-dead cows* "Mr* Rommel never did come out here to talk to me", said Gomez with a touch of bitterness in his voice* "Of course, during the year that he was in, there were no mutilations in this part of the country. They were mutilating up in Canada. We've been in the ranching business for a long time, and we know the difference between a mu¬ tilation and a cow that has been killed by a predator. We know the difference, and any animal that we find dead and hasn't been touched by predators, we know that it was a mutilation. Because they sense something on the carcass, and they won't eat it". (12) AUGUST - CATRON COUNTY A departure - a mutilation report from any area other than northern and NW New Mexi¬ co, Stare Police sources notified Officer Gabe Valdez in Dulce that a mutilated cow was discovered around August 10 in the Quemado area, but no details have been forthcoming* (13) AUGUST - RID ARRIBA COUNTY A rancher who had pre viously been struck in 1978 found a 4-year-old female Charolais west of Dulce on August 15th* The tongue and udder had been taken; the rectum had been 369 20 NEW MEXICO (continued) "cored out and two teeth were missing from the mouth. The cow was thought to have been dead for perhaps two days* (Sources: ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL; 3-31-82, 5-31-82, 6-19-82, 6-30-82; Farmington, New Mexico DAILY TIMES; 6-2-82; Aztec, NM, INDEPENDENT-REVIEW, 6-10-82 - Credit: Mary Frei, Gabe Valdez, Gary Lambert) NORTH CAROLINA A series of animal mutilations in Rowan County, between Greensboro and Charlotte, have come to the attention of Bonnie Smith and other members of the Rowan County Humane Society. In an interview with Mrs, Smith, the county-seat newspaper, the SALISBURY POST, revealed in January 1983 that: Two animals were mutilated within a one-mile area of Woodleaf in June and July and another was injured on Old Concord Road. A bull owned by Jim Graham, state agricultural commissioner, and a goat were mutilated around the end of November. On January 12 (1983), the skinned carcass of a poodle was found on Crescent Road in eastern Rowan.... Mrs* Smith said the animals couldn’t have been killed by other wild animals because of the way they were found and injured. Of the animals in Woodleaf, a bull was found with its ear cut off and genitals mutilated and a calf was found with an ear and eye missing. The goat’s throat was cut and Graham’s bull was butchered in a field. In ail cases, the incisions were clean, as if made with a scalpel. Mrs, Smith said all except the calf were tame, hand- raised pets, ...Mrs. Smith said it’s hard to tell how many other mutila¬ tions might have occurred, because people don’t talk about it. She found out about some other cases by talking to veterinarians. A couple of years ago, she found six or eight white rabbits skinned, with carcasses and skins stacked in two piles, in woods behind her house. ...Don Barbee, Woodleaf postmaster, said someone cut an ear and an eye out of a bull he owned in June. "No, it was definitely not killed for the meat?', Barbee said. 'It didn’t make sense to me at all. It was a clean cut, like with a sharp knife". Mrs, Truett Smith of Old Concord Road, whose family owned the 1100-lb. bull mutilated at their home in June, said the animal was definitely not killed for the meat. (The sheriff's office) thought it might be some cult, because of the organs that were removed"... Bonnie Smith of the humane society told Project Stigma that the Smith bull was found near the house, tied between trees, and nearby were two cigarette butts - different brands. 370 NORTH CAROLINA (continued) No one in the family smoked those brands. But the cuts on the bull clean and bloodless - Just bo evidence of blood or bleeding. Mrs* Si us that in mid-July 1982, and near the site of the Barbee mutilation was found with one ear apparently having been cut off. 21 were remarkably [pith also informs a week-old calf (Source: Salisbury, NC, POST, January 24,1983, (UfO Newsclipping Service), Bonnie Smith) NORTH DAKOTA LATE MARCH - DIVIDE COUNTY - NEAR WILDROSE On the night of Friday, March 26 or the early morning of Saturday, was launched on the cattle herd of Raymond Skor. According to the kota JOURNAL of March 31, 1982: Credit: Peter Guttilla via Lucius Parish the 27th, an attack Crosby, North Da¬ te ;th Killed directly in the attack were one milk cow and one calf, wj calves died, apparently from emotional stress created by the ati just being delivered at the time. Nine other cows required sutuifi pie wounds, keeping a veterinarian busy for seven hours Saturda. eral government trappers visited the scene Monday, and decided available appeared to be canine. But the wounds did not appear would be expected in an attack by a dog. Most of the cuts were and very deep - appearing to have been caused by an animal wil long and very sharp tooth, M They sliced just like a knife, shaviihj hair next to the wound", Mrs, Skor explained in a telrphone int^: Skor said there were at least 100 beef animals in the pole barn and probably a few pigs, as well. Snow covers the fence for the! the pigs have been able to come and go, and they may have mo 1 barn for shelter. The possibility of human vandalism seems eve ly, because there was severe blizzard conditions that evening her husband checked the barn at 10:30 Friday evening and all wa[ covered the carnage about 6:30 the next morning, "The cows se« a pretty good job of protecting their calves", she noted. Raymond Skor told Project Stigma in mid-1983 that no additional atta|i occurred again to his herd nor to anyone else's in the area, to his mer 4 miles to the east did find a horse that apparently died on thak end in 1982, but indications were that the animal died of natural cam ted on the "single claw theory” as presented to him by one of the gy The trapper asked Skor to visualize an animal the size of a bear or Iiile two other tack. One was es for multi- y.. .Two fed- the footprints be what single slashes, a single, very g some of the rview. Mrs. at the time, pig pen, so iired into the n more unlike- lAcs. Skor says s well. He dis- fem to have done cks of this nature knowledge- One far- same March week- ses, Skor elabora- vernment trappers, maybe a bear it* 371 22 NORTH DAKOTA (continued) self * which had somehow lost all but one claw on a foot (perhaps in a trap) and it seemed to the trapper that this one claw could have been used in the livestock attack, judging by the appearance of the wounds, (Source: CROSBY JOURNAL* 3-31-82. Credit: Lucius Farish (UFO Newsclipping Service); Raymond Skor), SOUTH DAKOTA LATE OCTOBER-EARLY NOVEMBER - MINNEHAHA CO,,CITY OF SIOUX FALLS Four dogs were found killed and mutilated in Sioux Falls within a week. The police de¬ partment was aroused enough to assign four men - one per dog - to the case: (1) Saturday, October 30 - a small dog, skinned, carcass left behind, (2) Sunday, October 31 - a golden retriever* only described as "badly mutilated". (3) Monday, November 1 - a doberman, also "badly mutilated", (4) Thursday* November 4 - a small animal, found skinned and headless near railroad tracks; possibly a dog but identity uncertain. In cases 2 and 3* the dogs were taken from their home kennels and were found dead in the attached garage of houses one block (case 3) and two blocks (case 2) away. In case 2 the car in the garage was also described as "heavily damaged" (?)(Fortunately it wasn't described as "badly mutilated"). Laboratory reports indicated that dogs 2 & 3 were not poisoned or tranquillized. A turquoise necklace was found at the scene along with one of the carcasses, A photo of the necklace appeared in area newspapers as the police hoped someone would recognize it and offer information. Authorities discussed the possibility of a "cult connection", although detective captain Don Skadsen stated: "...it's my per¬ sonal opinion at this time, based on the circumstances, based on the nature of the wounds and how the mutilations occurred,.,! don't personally feel that it's that type of thing, any type of a cult situation", (Sources: Mitchell, South Dakota, DAILY REPUBLIC, November 2 and 6, 1982, Credit: Lucius Farish, UFO Newsclipping Service), TEXAS OCTOBER 20 - DUVAL COUNTY - NEAR SAN DIEGO Some ranch workers found the remains of a six-year-old calf between a mile and two miles from a ranch house on October 20th, It was suspected that the calf died on about the 18th. Early on the 18th* ranch hands left hay at the site and there was nothing amiss there. The gate into the pasture was locked and the site was a mile beyond the gate. The calf's head and tail both appeared to have been cleanly severed from the body and both were missing. There was a cut or incision from where the tail had been cut away all the way up to the neck and, as far as could be discerned, all the internal viscera 372 TEXAS (continued) fye IC was also missing. There was no blood or evidence of bleeding. A metal Lay on the ground just where the calf s head should be and a be seen on portions of the carcass. An empty sardine can lay on ti feet from the piece of "tin** and a jawbone lay about 4 feet away, was suspected of being a jawbone of that particular animal. With temj Texas in the mid-80's, the carcase appeared to exude a normal or decomposition. Other cows fed on the nearby hay; buzzards were in seemed that very few scavengers were interested in the calf-husk t incident was reported to the sheriff’s office but the sheriff "couldn' cording to Project Stigma's anonymous informant, and it was also livestock association investigator ’’would be of no help". A number have occurred in the Duval-Jim Hogg-Brooks Counties region (as wel] the counties bordering the Rio Grande), with most occurring in the 23 piece of "tin 11 sheet- white powder could ground about 12 is not known if it iberatures in South expected odor of the area but it :(iat remained. The care less", ac- It that a local of cattle mutilations as to the south, in mid-1970's. fe On the ranch where the recent live stock-death occurred and in the unidentified "lion-like" animal had been spotted frequently. It had a body was a reddish color. One witness, driving at night, saw what red reflectors, as illuminated in her headlights, by the side of the closer, she realized they were the eyes of a cat-like animal, A nui which had been killed and/or "mutilated" and/or eaten in the area been victims of the "mystery cat", and scratches on some horses same animal, UTAH - WYOMING These states are considered together because the only known mutilajt state in 1982 occurred in an area along the border between the two, ty, Wyoming and Daggett County, Utah. All of the known mutilation^ September 20 or 21 and October 24, 1982. We have details on eight cer has said that there were ten in the area. Over three dozen eas the three-county area (including Uinta County, Wyoming) since (and occurred in 1975, with 16 in Uinta County that year, WeTl outline tl below: (1) Jordan O'Brien ranch (all names of ranchers are pseudonyms). 1 on September 22 was thought to have been mutilated on the 20th or the udder, on the left side, had been cut off (see Dzuris and Faulkijn rado and New Mexico case no. 11), The right ear was cut off flush half the left ear was excised. A tag that had been on one of the and left on the cow's neck (This has occurred a number of times t! an ear will be removed but the tag that was on it will be left at ea;: this surrounding area, an big head" and the she thought were road. As she drove inber of animals were thought to have were attributed to the ion cases in either in Sweetwater Coun- oceurred between cases; one law offi¬ ce have occurred in including) 1975. Most be eight 1982 cases Hereford cow found 21st. A portion of er cases in Colo- with the head and s had been removed hiroughout the years - scene * see Neb- 373 24 UTAH-WYOMING (continued) ra ska-the Lehman case in December), The Daggett County sheriff reports that the ani¬ mal was necropsied by the state veterinarian and: "It was his opinion that the cow was dead before it had been mutilated. He also stated that the mutilation was done with a cutting instrument and was not done by an animal", (2) Travis O'Brien ranch 0ordan O'Brien’s brother). A $600 cow was found on September 26 and was estimated to have died sometime since the 23rd, The tongue, left ear and the entire udder were taken. (3) Alan Cartridge ranch. Another $600 cow was found mutilated, again on Sept. 26, and it was thought that death had occurred a day or two previously. The animal was found i-mile off a road in a field, with the left ear removed. An unspecified number of teats were also taken, (4) Alan fkrtridge ranch. On or about September 30 (Thursday), a four-year-old cow was found missing its left ear, entire udder and a 4-inch-wide by 6-inch-deep section which had been "cored out" of the rectal area. (5) Alan Partridge was the owner, but this $500 cow was found on another nearby ranch (hot known whether it was supposed to be on this other ranch) on about October 10th. Missing were the left ear, all teats and, in this case, the female genitalia, (6) Alan Partridge, owner. Again, an animal found on another ranch (though not the ranch in #5), A 2-year-old, 600-lb, bull calf was mutilated around October 19th. The left ear was cut off flush with the head. The penis was removed, leaving a clean oval wound where it had been; the testicles were undisturbed. Some blood was noted in the animal’s nose and mouth, and the neck appeared swollen. Immediately aroimd the head were traces of blood on the grass. (7) Howard ranch - A 400-lb, Hereford steer calf was killed and mutilated around Oct. 19th or 20th, The penis and scrotum were taken, along with the left ear. The tongue was missing - an element not reported in the other area cases, A portion of hide had been rather cleanly removed from the lower left side of the jaws, exposing the mouth, from which the tongue was taken, (8) Howard ranch - another 400-lb, Hereford steer calf, mutilated around October 24th, Only the left ear was taken, with no other sign of mutilation. A Rock Springs, Wyoming veterinarian performed an autopsy on the animal on October 26, and he felt that the ani¬ mal might have died of natural causes, as the lungs exhibited some infection. There was no other apparent cause of death. A small amount of blood was noted coming out of the 374 UTAH-WYOMING (continued) 25 mouth, and there were indications that the calf had struggled to some degree - Sweetwater County, Wyoming, sheriffs deputy Theron Wilde told Linda Moulton Howe, in the update segment of the April 1983 re-broadcast in Denver of TT A Strange Harvest": They tell me that it's predators, which I do not believe, because I do not feel a predator can do these things, 1 don't feel a predator can come up and chew half of a bag off of a cow or the end of a penis off of a bull and not touch any of the rest of the cow. I've been around predators and they'll go inside the abdominal cavity first and eat the insides, which is easy eating. Deputy Wilde told Linda Howe that the state crime lab in Cheyenne agreed to treat po¬ tential mutilation cases with the same methods and priorities assigned to human homi¬ cide investigations, Wilde, a working cattle rancher, also reported that there had been a few helicopter reports during the period of the mutilations, and extending to Novem¬ ber 7th. Around the first of October, Wilde requested that a seismic exploration team with a chopper that had been working in Uinta County refrain from flying over the Daggett/Sweetwater County area. On Sunday, October 10th, Wilde, whose ranch is in the area where the mutilations occurred, observed a small 2-seater helicopter, with a glass bubble, silver tail with red at the end of the tail, circling over pasture lands. Wilde was unable to detect identifying markings through binoculars. Then, on November 7th, the same or a similar chopper flew over in the same circling pattern. This area was the scene of one of the more vivid "mystery helicopter" sightings that we reported on in our 1980 special publication, THE CHOPPERS AND THE CHOPPERS. In 1977 a de¬ puty sheriff was chased and paced down a rural road by a solid dark-green helicopter at speeds of up to 90 mph until the chopper, with its three long-haired, cowboy^clothes- clad occupants laughing and whooping it up, sat down on the road in front of the depu¬ ty's pickup. The deputy grabbed for his rifle, picked up his shotgun instead, and fired harmlessly at the chopper as it rose and flew away. The deputy had no trouble hearing the chopper as it flew alongside him but when it took off, he heard no sound - was it "silenced" in some fashion (like the "whisper mode"choppers in the films "Blue Thunder” and "Endangered Species") or was it a trick-of-the-mind induced by the deputy's fright and adrenalin-flow? (Sources: Linda Moulton Howe; Gaylen Jarvie, Sheriff of Daggett County, Utah) Washington FEBRUARY 19 - PIERCE COUNTY Graham area. The 23rd known horse mutilation in Pierce County since (and including) 1975 garnered ample publicity and again raised the ire of horse lovers. These horse 375 26 WASHINGTON (continued) attacks, all directed at either geldings or stallions, have differed from the "classic" livestock mutilations reported elsewhere in the country in that a great many of the equine victims survived the attacks. There is usually ample blood and bleeding. The events are most often characterized by the removal of the penis with a sharp instru¬ ment. The gelded quarter horse found on February 19 was alive but bleeding profusely from the wound where the penis had been severed. The horse was found near the house but, as in the other cases, there was no noise or disturbance - leading some investi¬ gators to theorize that some sort of pain-killer/sedative may have been applied with a tranquillizer dart gun - using a drug that dissipates soon after the mutilation. But in the Graham-area case of the 19th, Puyallup veterinarian William J. Briskey was unable to locate any areas on the body that would indicate an entrance wound from a dart or needle* "There was no sign of sedation", he said. "The horse looked normal except for the bleeding, I wish I knew how they were doing it"* MAY 12 - PIERCE COUNTY A 6-week-old registered thoroughbred colt was seen alive and well around 7:00 on the evening of the 11th. Although most of the victim horses fail to put up a struggle, this animal apparently "put up a fuss" against its attackers. The horse, found still alive around 8:00 the next morning, had suffered a deep 3-inch gash in the groin area, and the intestines were trailing out. Authorities felt the animal probably put up a fight as someone tried to sexually mutilate it - like the others - but the groin was sliced in the struggle. At around 4:30 that morning, a neighbor's dog had been "barking wildly", but no other suspicious activity was recorded. This was noted as being horse mutila¬ tion number 24 in the series* By November of 1982 a reward for the mutilators stood at almost $10,000. Press ac¬ counts indicated that the latest horse mutilation before 1982 occurred in 1980. However, as we noted in our summary of the 1981 cases in STIGMATA no. 16, a couple of such attacks may have occurred in early 1981. Also, a bull was reported mutilated in Pierce County in late winter of 1981, and a steer in neighboring King County was mutilated in September 1981. Sheriff and Humane Society investigators are stumped, having been un¬ able to discern any patterns. They report that all of the horses have been mutilated "with smooth, clean cuts that would indicate the use of an extremely sharp instrument”. The organs that were removed were recovered in only two cases. To the north of Seattle, it was reported in February of 1982 that a significant number of horses in Snohomish County had been turning up missing - and presumed stolen. Of about 30,000 horses in the county, approximately 30 disappear or are stolen each month* It was revealed in October of 1982 that in the Yakima, Washington area, up to 14 dogs had been skinned within a year, and their carcasses tossed over the back fence at the 376 27 WASHINGTON (continued) Yakima County Humane Society animal shelter. Also, at least a half-dozen cats had been "partially skinned” (using "very smooth razor cuts'). All survived, although at least some of them had to be put to sleep. As for the dogs, it was difficult to deter¬ mine whether they had been alive when skinned. Sources: TACOMA NEWS TRIBUNE,2-24-82, 5-12-S2; Eatonyille, WA, DISPATCH, 2- 24- 82; Everett, WA, HERALD, 2-5-82; NISQUALLY VALLEY NEWSfYelm, WA), 2-25-82; SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, 10-17-82, 11-28-82; Olympia, WA, OLYMPIAN, il-28- 82; Salem, OR, STATESMAN-JOURNAL, 11-27-82; Yakima, WA, HERALD REPUBLIC, 10-12-82 - Credit; Linda Williford, Kalani Bmohano0acob Davidson), Toyo Yamamoto, Peter Guttilla via Lucius Parish (UFO Newsclipping Service); Julius Rodman via Kalani Hanohano* WEST VIRGINIA EARLY SEPTEMBER - PRESTON COUNTY Location: the Bmeeton Mills area, near the Pennsylvania border* A couple weTl call the Sandersons, in mid-1982, moved onto property where the house and adjoining fields had been deserted for several years* They brought with them a number of horses and three goats. In August the youngest kid goat was found "ripped in half 1 , apparently having been attacked by an animal. The backbone was fractured and the carcass partially eat¬ en* Then, around the first of September, the second of three goats was found over a hill about a quarter-mile from the Sanderson's house* The ample udder was missing from the 5-6 year-old animal and it lay dead* The udder had been removed "smooth as could be" and the underlying abdominal cavity had not been damaged. There was no blood around and no evidence of bleeding. Although it was expected that scavengers would attend to the carcass right away, nothing fed upon it until about a week later* The third goat was chained about 20 feet away from where the carcass was found. Phy¬ sically, the survivor was well, except that the formerly docile animal was suddenly fearful and nervous* It looked haggard and thin as though it had actually lost a signifi¬ cant amount of body weight overnight - as it walked in a constant circle at the length of her chain, wearing a rut in the ground. As of mid-1983, this remaing goat remains un¬ characteristically nervous and "terror-stricken". There were less-than-substantial hints of other similar occurrences in the area; but at present the Sanderson goat case remains an isolated one* PREVIEW - 1983: The "trickle 11 of mutilation reports typically begins to get noticably heavier around mid-year* 1983 appears to be no exception, as we go to press* Mutila¬ tors have already struck Colorado and Texas* Persistent rumors emanate from Arizona* Hardest hit so far has been northern New Mexico* In CRUX well report on some fas¬ cinating and possibly mute-related occurrences in New Mexico. 377 MUTE MISCELLANY In her documentary, "A Strange Harvest", Linda Moulton Howe presez tained by Dr- R, Leo Sprinkle, using regressive hypnosis) of a woman have been abducted onto a UFO in the Houston area in 1973, Aboard t; nessed the mutilation of a calf by ufonauts, Two recent developments: daughter (who was abducted in the same incident but refused to partic tigation) has now surfaced and expressed interest in determining to hi (and peace of mind, apparently) just what occurred. Then, on Memory 1983, the Texas woman was driving with family members in Missouri was paced by a white-light UFO for some distance. They reached the farmhouse of a relative, where the light moved in to hover over a ba Three years previously, it is claimed that three cattle were found de in that barn* ited an account (ob* who claimed to le craft, she wit- Tbe woman’s ipate in the inves- tr own satisfaction l1 Day weekend of when their car ir destination, the rn before exiting* id and mutilated Anticipation is keen for a book to be published in 1984 by Prentice-Ha IOTENT by Lawrence Fawcett and Barry J. Greenwood, Though some date will apparently be included, the primary thrust of the book will tion of the government/UFO connection - based in part on documents Freedom of Information Act, There will be much on the madness of ] icopters, UFOs - including the brazen overflights over military Insta] doubted that the government was interested in UFOs, this book has tl allaying those doubts* It’s tentatively scheduled to be published in the 11: titled CLEAR amount of mute be an examina- obtained via the 975 - mutes, hel- lations. If you ,e potential for spring of 1984. Two videocassette releases may be of interest to those with video re< gered Species" has now been released on videocassette by MGM/UA. the theatrical version, A documentary - "UFOs - It Has Begun" is re but we do not know who issued it or where to locate it* The 1979 filn early-to-mid 70" s documentary, "UFOs - Past, Present & Future” - i in 1979 of a significant amount of Jacques Vallee-narrated mutilation r ;orders* "Endan- It's the same as portedly available, i is actually an vith the addition nateriaL Ray Boeche of the Nebraska Association for the Study of the Unexplak Mahlman of the University of Nebraska/Lincoln advise that a public c ploring Unexplained Phenomena" will be co-sponsored by their organic be held in Lincoln on November 11-13, 1983, Speakers include J, Allen Schuessler, Budd Hopkins, Lawrence Fawcett, Loren Coleman, Roy N nold, and mutilations will be covered by Linda Moulton Howe and Tot ject Stigma* For further information on admission,etc,,contact: The braska-Lincoln; Division of Continuing Studies; 205 Nebraska Center; Streets; Lincoln, Nebraska 68583* We T re looking forward to it! led and Terry E, onference on "Ex- ations and will Hynek, John F, flackal, Larry Ar- n Adams of Pro- LJniversity of Ne- 33rd and Holdrege Investigator Tommy Roy Blann, in May 1983, received confirmation - f nadian Mounted Police - that "the investigation into cattle mutilations continues to be an ongoing investigation". 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