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Monday, January2,1989
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Idaho Rancher hit by mutilation of Cattle................
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Malad City, Idaho,
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Bizarre cattle mutilations--in which the animals repoductive organs have been cut away- don`t intimidate rancher Tom Williams, although suc
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h incidents frighten several of his friends.
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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
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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
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rituals. Mutilations have been occuring in the area for about ten years. There have been news reports in the past of such occurrences, thoug
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h responsibility has never been fixed. Friends ask whether he and his wife are afraid to live "where crazies come down to mutilate cattle
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". 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
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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
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happened. This year after he relaxed his guard again, he lost an animal. Reported mutilation incidents share some similarities
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: The animals didn`t struggle, no footprints were ever found around the animals, there was no blood around the cuts and the incidents usual
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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
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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
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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
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ave bloated, but when he saw the precise incisions and missing genitals, he knew the cattle mutilators had struck again. Williams contacte
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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
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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
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no bullet holes and virtually no marks that you could see". Both mutilations must have been done quickly by some experts, he speculated. "So
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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
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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
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erfectly, someone had a steady hand".
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This was reprinted from the Idaho Statesman of January 2, 1989 by <<<<<<<DON MASON>>>>COMPUTERS-ON-LINE..Boise,Idaho>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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