Mutilation - 30 cattle - Fyffe, AL

Tuesday, Oct 20, 1992

Beginning in November of 1992, the Fyffe Police Department has been conducting an investigation into unexplained cattle mutilations in cooperation with neighboring police and law enforcement agencies. These reported incidents began on October 20, 1992 and have continued through the last week in Marshall and DeKalb counties.

To date over thirty (30) animals have been discovered dead in pastures with various internal and external organs missing. The incisions examined on there animals exhibit a precise surgical cutting. In many of the cases there has been evidence of extremely high heat at the tissue excisions. The absence of physical evidence adds to the mystery at the majority of mutilation sites. Though many animals have been found in soft pasture land, and in many cases mud, there have been no footprints, tracks, or marks found anywhere near the mutilated animals.

To date no police agency has established a suspect or motive for these incidents of phantom surgery perpetrated on area livestock. Neither has an eyewitness or informant come forward to offer any credible insight or testimony.

The first documented incident of cattle mutilation was reported on October 20, 1992 by Albertville cattle farmer John Strawn. The animal was discovered in a wooded area of Mr. Strawn's pasture by a neighbor who found the animal dead, lying on its side. The animal's entire milk sac was missing with no evidence of blood on the animal, nor on the ground where it lay. The neighbor said the neat, oval incision where the udder had been removed appeared to be charred.

Other farmers in the Albertville area soon started reporting similar cases over the next

References

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