SUBJECT: MORE ON MUTES FILE: UFO1980
PART 2
Monday, January 2, 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 such 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. The 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, though 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(this was typed and put on computer in Boise, Idaho, by Don
Mason....Computers-on-Line...) and 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 usually happen a couple of weeks after
halloween.
On the same day Williams found a dead four hundred pound Hereford steer, his
neighbor Rex Daniels 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 +bout 200 yards from his
mother in laws house.
At first he thought that it might have bloated, but when he saw the precise
incisions and missing genitals, he knew the cattle mutilators had struck again.
Williams contacted 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.
"Someone 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 perfectly, someone had a
steady hand".
This was reprinted from the Idaho Statesman of January 2, 1989
**********************************************
* THE U.F.O. BBS -
http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
**********************************************
