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SUBJECT: RECENT ALA. CATTLE MUTILATIONS: ODYSSEY NET FILE: UFO2144
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Odyssey News Wire--
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*** Classification ***
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³ ³ Space/Astronomy/UFO/Astral Events
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³ ³ Monsters/Strange Creatures
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³*³ Unknown Happenings/Paranormal/Psychic Events
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* This article may be crossposted in FREE echoes.
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ÚÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÂÄ¿
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³o³The Decatur Daily ³o³
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³o³February 21, 1993 ³o³
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³o³ ³o³
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³o³ALBERTVILL- At least 12 animals have been mysteriously ³o³
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³o³killed and mutilated since October. Cattle farmers, ³o³
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³o³including Albertville chief detective Tony Cole, have ³o³
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³o³reported dead bloodless, mutilated animals - cows, ³o³
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³o³goats and at least one dog. The animals were found in ³o³
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³o³pastures with no traces of auto mobile tracks, ³o³
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³o³footprints or blood. ³o³
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³o³ "On Jan. 9, I went to feed my steers and realized I ³o³
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³o³was one short. The sexual organs and rectum was removed ³o³
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³o³and the biood was gone," Cole said. ³o³
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³o³ His animal was killed amid his investigations into ³o³
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³o³the mysterious case. ³o³
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³o³ All of the killings, including the latest - a ³o³
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³o³calf found near Arab Tuesday morning - have formed a ³o³
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³o³three or four mile ring around Albertville. ³o³
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³o³ "They take tongues, eyes, ears, hearts. Sometimes they ³o³
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³o³take the blood," Cole said. There are no suspects in ³o³
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³o³the case. ³o³
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³o³ Cattle mutilations are not entirely uncommon in this ³o³
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³o³Sand Mountain area - and residents remember some from ³o³
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³o³1986, 1989 and 1991. One farmer said he was hit a few ³o³
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³o³years ago and then hit again a few mornings ago. Cattle ³o³
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³o³owners from Browns Valley and Brindlee Mountain have ³o³
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³o³reported similar mutilations. ³o³
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³o³ Most of the animals are worth about $800 ³o³
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³o³and many of them are not insured, Cole said. The ³o³
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³o³killings are apparently happening at night. All of the ³o³
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³o³animals have been found within 150 feet of power lines. ³o³
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³o³Speculation about who could be doing the killing ranges ³o³
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³o³from aliens to satanic worshipers to people in ³o³
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³o³helicopters and on foot. ³o³
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³o³ Marshall County authorities are aware of ³o³
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³o³two black county helicopters, one blue and ³o³
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³o³white Tennessee Valley Authority chopper and several ³o³
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³o³military helicopters that fly through the area ³o³
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³o³following flight paths. ³o³
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³o³ "A TVA helicopter is not a possibility. I ³o³
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³o³don't think ther're involved at all. Absolutely not," ³o³
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³o³Cole said. ³o³
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³o³ Most of the decomposed cows are buried hours after ³o³
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³o³they are found but three were found in time to send ³o³
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³o³for autopsies. ³o³
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³o³ "It's crazy. It's sick," John Strawn said. The ³o³
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³o³cattlemen and finance manager at Gilbert and Baker Ford ³o³
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³o³Inc. lost one of his animals to the mysterious ³o³
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³o³murderers. He said a state animal laboratory could not ³o³
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³o³determine the cause of death. "No one knows what's ³o³
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³o³killing the animals," Cole said. He said he's formed a ³o³
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³o³network with victims of the crime. On Tuesday night, ³o³
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³o³several people called the sheriffs department to report ³o³
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³o³mysterious helicopters flying over pastures near ³o³
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³o³Albertville. The county pilot, Jim Pickett, said he and ³o³
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³o³night supervisor deputy Bob Norwood went up in the ³o³
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³o³county chopper to see if they could locate another ³o³
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³o³helicopter. Norwood said he had already been to the farm ³o³
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³o³and heard a helicopter with a turbine engine. He said ³o³
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³o³the Huntsville Aviation Tower could not detect movement ³o³
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³o³on their screens and was unaware of flight Plans for ³o³
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³o³that area that night. The The chopper was reported near ³o³
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³o³Martling. Pickett and Norwood went about 2,500 feet up ³o³
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³o³with running lights. They were communicating with ³o³
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³o³dispatchers and receiving reports for sighting of the ³o³
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³o³other helicopter, which they said they tried to follow ³o³
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³o³but never found. ³o³
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³o³ We kept getting reports of a helicopter flying at ³o³
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³o³tree-top level with "no lights," he said. The sheriffs ³o³
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³o³helicopter, which is black was not flying at tree- ³o³
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³o³top level and had lights on at all times. ³o³
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³o³While searching for the second helicopter, shots were ³o³
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³o³fired from the ground at the sheriffs helicopter. ³o³
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³o³No one was hurt. Also, Norwood said a car signaled the ³o³
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³o³chopper by flashing lights off and on. The helicopter ³o³
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³o³flew close enough to the car to see that it was parked ³o³
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³o³under power lines. ³o³
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³o³ "People were trying to lure us into high tension ³o³
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³o³wires. I don't think it was purposely for us," he ³o³
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³o³said. ³o³
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³o³ Both agreed they had low visibility and needed ³o³
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³o³more light then what they had to adequately see what ³o³
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³o³they were doing. ³o³
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³o³ We Would need infrared equipment if there was ³o³
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³o³another chopper," Norwood said. The pair didn't see ³o³
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³o³another helicopter but said it would have been ³o³
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³o³extremely difficult because of the darkness-and because ³o³
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³o³the alleged chopper was running without lights.. ³o³
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³o³ ALBERTVILLE- Doug Segers said he saw a helicopter ³o³
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³o³forcing his herd of 42 cattle into a corner in his ³o³
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³o³pasture. He said he felt the wind and heard the engine. ³o³
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³o³ "The copter was behind my back with a spotlight." Of ³o³
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³o³course, I had a 30-30 r@fle over my shoulder. They saw ³o³
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³o³me run to my truck " he said. ³o³
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³o³ "The cows were scared to death. One cow is real gentle ³o³
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³o³and we couldn't even get around her." ³o³
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³o³ A neighbor called the Marshall County Sheriff's ³o³
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³o³Department. The excitement scared the helicopter away, ³o³
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³o³Segers said. He said he saw what looked like red, ³o³
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³o³green, blue and white lights but couldn't make out the ³o³
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³o³color of the chopper. He said he also saw the sheriffs ³o³
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³o³helicopter much higher. The alleged mysterious ³o³
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³o³helicopter barely cleared power lines before getting ³o³
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³o³lower. ³o³
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³o³ "I wasn't scared, I was mad. They ³o³
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³o³would have gotten (a cow) that night" he said, ³o³
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³o³"The farmers, all of us, are going to have to pull ³o³
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³o³together and help one another out and do what we can to ³o³
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³o³help." ³o³
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³o³ Segers owns a slaughterhouse and said they kill ³o³
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³o³animals every day for people. ³o³
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³o³ "I don't see how in the world can they do it this ³o³
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³o³way," he said. ³o³
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³o³ Some farmers are using spotlights and patrolling ³o³
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³o³their land, he said. ³o³
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³o³ The animals weigh about 1,000 pounds and hold about 40 ³o³
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³o³pounds - or five gallons - of blood. Some residents say ³o³
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³o³helicopters make sense because it would give the killers ³o³
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³o³lifting abilities and would make it easier to take heavy ³o³
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³o³blood animal parts and cutting and pumping equipment ³o³
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³o³away from the scene. ³o³
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³o³ Resident and victim Jole Strawn said he has seen ³o³
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³o³helicopters land in cow pastures at night. He said he ³o³
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³o³has 30 head or about $12,000 in animals. ³o³
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³o³ He organized a network of victims and farmers and said ³o³
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³o³the group has been able to identify three turbine ³o³
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³o³helicopters in the area: ³o³
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³o³> Light blue and white with a big orange sun; ³o³
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³o³> dark blue; ³o³
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³o³> black ³o³
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³o³ "I think they're coming in from away from here," he ³o³
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³o³said. ³o³
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³o³ He also said he spotted a helicopter flying about 75 ³o³
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³o³feet above the Ford dealership in the fog. ³o³
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³o³ "Some of this stuff is real bizarre," he said. Some of ³o³
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³o³the animals were found with no rigor mortis and with ³o³
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³o³limber joints. ³o³
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³o³ According to mortician, J. Hammond Martin, animals and ³o³
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³o³humans are not stiff right after death but become stiff ³o³
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³o³later and then begin detcriorating - once again without ³o³
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³o³stifftness. ³o³
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³o³ Mr. and Mrs. James Denney lost two cows in 1991. They ³o³
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³o³said they believe satanic worshippers could be ³o³
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³o³responsible for the killing. The cows were worth about ³o³
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³o³$800 each and not insured. ³o³
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³o³ "We bought them on a Wednesday, they were killed the ³o³
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³o³next Sunday," Mrs. Denney said. One of the animals was ³o³
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³o³still warm and the calf was not hurt. ³o³
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³o³ The only known helicopters in Marshall County are the ³o³
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³o³two black county choppers, a blue and white Tennessee ³o³
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³o³Valley Authority helicopter and several helicopters ³o³
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³o³that fly military flights through the county. ³o³
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³o³ "I think whoever is doing this is doing it for a ³o³
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³o³party with mystique," deputy Bob Norwood said. He ³o³
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³o³doesn't think it would involve a true cult. "The true ³o³
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³o³meaning of the word cult is hidden. They don't want the ³o³
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³o³publicity. It's their own little party." ³o³
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³o³Dozens of residents have spotted helicopters from about ³o³
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³o³8 p.m. to midnight near pastures. ³o³
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³o³ "They're going to protect their property," Norwood said ³o³
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³o³of the farmers. A lot of the farmers in the area also ³o³
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³o³are hunters and know how to use guns. ³o³
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³o³ Marshall County Sheriffs department pilot Jim Pickett ³o³
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³o³said minimum cost for a manufactured helicopter is about ³o³
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³o³$175,000. He said night vision equipment and a turbine ³o³
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³o³engine would cost about $200,000 more. He also said it ³o³
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³o³could cost about $300 an hour to operate. ³o³
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³o³ Pickett said it would be difflcult to determine ³o³
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³o³whether a helicopter had landed on hard, dry packed ³o³
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³o³land. ³o³
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³o³It could be a helicopter pilot and two ground people. ³o³
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³o³The helicopter doesn't have to land," he said. ³o³
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³o³ "They want people to be scared of them," Norwood said. ³o³
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³o³ They said while the helicopter theory is possible, the ³o³
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³o³same thing could be done on foot - without all the ³o³
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³o³cost. Helicopters have the danger of night, the ³o³
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³o³possibility of air and noise scaring the cattle and huge ³o³
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³o³costs. ³o³
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³o³ Martin, who has been a mortician since 1939, said there ³o³
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³o³is a wide technical range of equipment used to pump ³o³
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³o³blood out of human bodies. He said the equipment could ³o³
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³o³easily be used on cattle - and without leaving a trace ³o³
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³o³of blood on the ground. ³o³
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³o³ "We used to do it by hand, using a bowl and gravity. ³o³
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³o³Now it's a machine," he said. He said morticians often ³o³
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³o³use a fluid to push the blood out of a body but said the ³o³
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³o³cow killers wouldn't need to do that. He also said the ³o³
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³o³equipment could easily be carried. ³o³
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³o³ "They could drain it and not leave a drop of blood," ³o³
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³o³he said. ³o³
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