Idaho Rancher hit by mutilation of Cattle

Monday, January2,1989
Idaho Rancher hit by mutilation of Cattle................
Malad City, Idaho,
Bizarre cattle mutilations--in which the animals repoductive organs have been cut away- don`t intimidate rancher Tom Williams, although suc
h incidents frighten several of his friends.
  Williams, who owns a cattle ranch about ten miles south of Malad city, has lost two animals to mutilation in the past couple of years.  T
he most recent one was killed last month about a mile from his home.   He and others suspect the animals organs are used in a Satanic cult 
rituals. Mutilations have been occuring in the area for about ten years. There have been news reports in the past of such occurrences, thoug
h responsibility has never been fixed.    Friends ask whether he and his wife are afraid to live "where crazies come down to mutilate cattle
". About two years ago, one of his cows was  killed about one-eighth of a mile from his home. A circular incision  was made on its stomach a
nd the animals heart, entrails, ears and a tail were taken.   The next year, Williams kept an extra close eye on his livestock and  nothing
happened. This year after he relaxed his guard again, he lost  an animal.              Reported mutilation incidents share some similarities
: The animals didn`t struggle, no footprints were ever found around  the animals, there was no blood around the cuts and the incidents usual
ly  happen a couple of weeks after halloween.  On the same day Williams found a dead four hundred pound Hereford steer, his neighbor Rex Dan
iels lost a 1200 pound registered Hereford cow that would have calved in the spring. In the morning, Williams went to feed  his calves as he
 always does and spotted a dead one lying on the ground  about 200 yards from his mother in laws house.  At first he thought that it might h
ave bloated, but when he saw the  precise incisions and missing genitals, he knew the cattle mutilators  had struck again. Williams contacte
d law enforcement officials. They took samples of meat and hide, and after lab testing, he should know in a couple of months what killed the
 animals.   He suspects the calf was shot with some type of poison to kill it instantly. A pin hole was found on its right hip. "There were
no bullet holes and virtually no marks that you could see". Both mutilations must have been done quickly by some experts, he speculated. "So
meone understands what they are doing, they`ve done it before".  All the cuts were made with such a sharp instrument that hair on the animal
 was literally cut in two, Williams said. I`ve skinned and butchered a lot of cattle he said; and "I can`t even cut a hide or leather that p
erfectly, someone had a steady hand".
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