Within the past few weeks we’ve had multiple animal mutilations here in Colorado and Missouri and the ranchers involved are upset and concerned for the safety of their animals. The ranches surrounding the area of these unusual animal deaths are also worried about their livestock. Could this also happen to their animals? Multiple alarming questions still remain.
Why are the same ranchers being targeted again and again when there are other ranches nearby that don’t get hit?
Who or what is doing this? And why? For what purpose? Will humans be next, or have Human Mutilations already occurred and their stories have been covered up?
Missouri mutilation:
On July 10th, 2013, I was contacted by Lyn Mitchell from Henry County, Missouri, and was informed she just had a mutilation occurrence on her ranch. This was the second mutilation on her ranch, the first one happening in December 2011. She had located me through her brother who found an article about one of my investigations on the internet from January of 2012. She asked if I could come down and investigate her mutilation case, but unfortunately she didn’t know I live in Colorado while she lives in Missouri. But not to worry… I asked her if I could contact an experienced investigator who lives near her area, and she agreed, so I asked Margie Kay from the Kansas City Missouri location to help out. Margie agreed to investigate the mutilation, so I forwarded Lyn’s information to her.
( Photo courtesy Lyn Mitchell, first mutilation in 2011 )
This heifer calf about 600 pounds died in
December of 2011 and besides the unusual incisions shown here, the calf
was also missing its tail and anal region.
( Picture of second mutilation, courtesy Lyn Mitchell )
On July 13th Margie Kay with fellow
investigator Larry Jordan, met with the rancher and headed to the
location of the mutilation. The animal had already been moved by the
rancher, but both investigators were surprised to see a circular
depressed area on the ground where the animal was laying. Soil samples
were taken for future analysis.
The rancher stated the animal was found on
July 10th, and was lying on her left side. The anal area, tongue and
udder had been removed. There was evidence of bird damage, but not
causing the extreme and precise cuts the rancher saw.
( Picture of third mutilation courtesy Margie Kay )
On July 19th, Lyn called Margie and
informed her she had found another mutilated animal on her ranch, now
that makes three. The rancher had called the Sheriff and veterinarian
and they were on their way to the mutilation location as they spoke.
Margie and fellow investigator Larry Jordan
arrived at the scene just after the veterinarian had left. The 7 year
old cow was found with a cut in the front of the body between the front
two legs, and the heart nearly outside of the body. All of the teats had been
cut off the udder, and the tongue was cut out. There was damage to one
of the eyes, but that could have been attributed to bird scavenging.
The veterinarian said there was no blood on
the ground near the animal and the cuts were clean and precise. There
was little blood in the chest cavity area which was unexplainable and
there were no signs of predator claw or bite marks and no signs of
bullet holes causing the death. This animal was estimated at about
$2000.
Note: Not only do the ranchers lose what
the animal is worth initially, but they also lose any future offspring
the animal could have. This could estimate into the thousands of dollars
of lost income to the rancher.
Colorado Mutilation:
On July 11th, 2013, I was contacted once again by rancher Miller from Trinidad, Colorado.
( Picture courtesy Sally Miller )
Rancher Miller found this 4 year old Red
Angus, laying awkwardly on a side of a sloped hill. The carcass was a
couple of days old when Miller found it when his herd count was off by
one.
- Animal weight was 1000 pounds plus
- Animal had a calf 2 months before and was still nursing. The calf was found healthy near the herd
- Anal area was cored out
- The hide on the jaw was skinned back
- Broken front and rear legs as if fractured from being dropped
- Right missing ear
- Animal had a calf 2 months before and was still nursing. The calf was found healthy near the herd
- Anal area was cored out
- The hide on the jaw was skinned back
- Broken front and rear legs as if fractured from being dropped
- Right missing ear
Rancher’s personal thoughts:
The animal appeared to have been dropped
from the sky near the ledge of a small sloping hill. The body was
twisted and limbs broken with no signs of predator take-down damage or
blood on the ground. Rancher Miller monitors all the cows with young
calves to insure they’re healthy and can properly nurse their young.
This particular animal was completely healthy showing no signs of
sickness or ailments of any kind. It was unusual to see the calf without
its mother, generally they stay close together especially when the calf
is nursing.
Note: The average cow this size has 4.4
gallons of blood, if a predator possibly a mountain lion or bear
attacked it, there would be signs of blood everywhere. Like all
authentic mutilation cases, there is never any signs of blood on the
ground or on the hide. There is never any signs of struggling or claw or
bite marks, just a dead animal with unusual circumstances.
This lack of evidence mimics what the veterinarian saw in the Missouri case mentioned above.
A very special thanks to rancher Miller for
contacting me about this mutilation, the more investigations I do, the
more I learn and the more evidence I can acquire to be able to “crack”
these cases and find the truth behind them.
Also a very special thank you to Lyn
Mitchell from Missouri for contacting me initially about her second
mutilation case which enabled me to contact Margie to investigate it.
And a very special ”thumbs up” to Margie
Kay and Larry Jordan for “stepping up to the plate” and sacrificing
their time to run two separate animal mutilation investigations within a
very short time frame. Animal mutilation investigations are not
intended for every investigator to do, it needs a special type of person
with specially trained skills to properly push the boundaries on animal
mute cases. Margie has “stepped up” before on other cases showing
extreme professionalism while acquiring the unusual evidence which is
needed to further understand these strange phenomenons. I’m lucky to
know her and we’re all lucky she’s out there fighting the good fight for
all of us.
Ranchers who go the extra mile contacting
investigators like me and Margie to run our investigations along with
law enforcement on their animal deaths, seem to know it takes more than
conventional thinking to figure this out. Law enforcement investigators
are only experienced in finding human evidence and some with added
schooling, have been trained to look for natural predator evidence. But
what about these cases? Law enforcement can only determine if evidence
of human or natural predators are involved, but what about the unknown?
Well.. that’s where we come in.
Oh, and for those of you who are keeping
track or keeping score, the animal in Colorado was located within the 37
degree latitude lay-line and the Missouri case was just outside 37
degree latitude inside the 38. Hmmmm
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