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Ore Erte cs, Bettini ne EY agen 5: . ee a ree ee a eee Ore oy i" | ball but also the eyelid, membranes and v all, There was to be more. Much more. 4914; YEAR OF THE, MUTES — Ya April 1974, the mutilators were at It again fa Nebraska, with the sare famiiiat modus operondi: Blood was drained in somé Instances; there were no footprints; and various organs were re- moved, apparently surgically. High o:f- cials again kaned toward the predatory < ¢ * = - x eoyote/crow/tacoan-with-ascatl . the- 3 : ory. The toll of ‘mutes, as atutilstica ik - buffs began referring to the acts, mountes fe br : throughout the suwamer, and by Segen- ae? a oo ; ber, some 50 cascs had bees reported in Balj Sep oe eS Ler. the Cornhusker Stite, . ‘thet Sib ie]® 2" Qudine THe past THREE YEARS, atone feo ere xs t * ". .. """: DURING THE PAST THREE YEARS, Slations were the pets scopies- yt “MORE THAN 1500 CATILE IN 22 STATES HAVE BEEN —_| euipped_devil worshipers, or “ferns ‘pt F ~~ KILLED AND MUTILATED. THEIR BLOOD DRAINED , situalists,” began to spread among the Ags ._ AND SELECTED ORGANS REMOVED _ | g90d farmers of Nebraske, Shaigur- ae Si gPE ML SUR GICAL PRECISION ” toting vigiaoxs took to riding ee ye SUSPECTS RANGE FROM SATANIC CULTISTS . Tormetimes stopped out-of-state wehicres | for a cow-blood check. Some marksper: ° a the fall of 1973, there were sbout 40 frightening catde mutilations in a dozen counties in north-central Keasss, most of them occurring ong U.S. 81, which runs north through Kansas into Nebraska. Nebrasks , also had some mutilated moos. ; . Kansas sheriff depariments, the high- way patrol and the stete bureav of in- vestigation seemed baffied, as did the wielimized cattle ranchers. The ranchers were used to the nocturnal depredations of predators, but they had never seen anything like the surgical precision and methodical discrimination with which these animals had been chopped up: some with their eats and tongue end, say,-an eye removed; others with a swish of tail, their udders and a petch of neck fiesh cut cleanly away; aad nearly all of them with the anus and genitals The removat of cow vulvas and bull dongs caused speculation that weirdos were Involved. Suspicion fell upon one or more of the following: (1) the irre- sponsible shenanigans of those great (Plas Bie: & \o oe! pe eta Wy rey, A be Lae te ge Te ae ao . . Ba Fy a + ith we pa ae . . ae : ‘ on ot ry 7. ” “tae fr 4 © afae® a a be wapegoats, the hippies; (2) sex seviates . 4 3 practicing bu cow-vulva atroci- Re Te ties; or (3) the rites of some religious Pep us cultists of a devil-worshiping nature. - We et ‘Many authorities demurred. Dr. Har-. Z i or) ty Anthony, director of the Kansas State - ¢ 2 University veterinarian Laboratory, stated 3 e oa in late 1973 thar four out of the nine AY motilsted animals that the bb bad ex- ean amined apparently had died of a cattle disease called blackleg; the Kansas state branls commissioner declared that 99 percent of the deaths of animals that had 4 Lee Le f TO GOVERNMENT RESEARCHERS. AN EXCLUSIVE REPORT BY ED SANDERS . eon fe a pickup appafentty tried to wisg an aircraft that was checking @ pove! ine near Grand Island, Nebraska; as a result, the state National Guard ordered its choppers to fy at a micimum of 1G: feet rather than at the nvtraa! low of $02 fect. Sheriff Herb Thompson of hard-h.: Knox County’ reported that, én seserc! occasions, belicopters were seen on night: when ‘mutilstions, ca. There were been mutilated had been caused by natu- ral factors. Such statements triggered a bit of outrage in law-enforcement circles in the 12 Kansas counties affected, with many officials ntiintaining their belief that humans were iavolved. . There were several bits of evidence that pointed away from predators. There was the absence of blood and footprints, for example. One cow was even found in a large mudhole, but sill there were no tracks. Then, there war a peculiar ab- sence of dangling guts and scattered hunks of flesh (predators do not read that bere no identification number. In the fall of. 1974, as the tapered off in Nebraska, the flyin; mutilation show worked its way up in: "South Dakota and over into Minnesc: Emily Post). Also, though many animals : riness We: were found in secluded arcas, others were Again, copier ee suthorits found near barns or a few feet [rom] annie a place the tlame on predaic: sleeping farmers’ wind to Civ: | There was one motble exception D ilization than predstors usually 70am. | Atahion W. Vorhies, associate profess Helicopters without filed flight plans wert { coe Univerhy, said thot ten enim sighted quite often in the afflicted Coun- | bh14 been examined at the school and 1 ties, sometimes bovering above esttle | some of them had probably: been wr: pers. But authorities were not able to ated by Homo sapiens. : catch the choppers or to locate their | $5 Minnesota, encanwbile, there + landing and refueling areas. One of the | coe case that points to © posible early theories was that a helicopter-borne | tion 45 g part of the mystery. On Fé: rustling operation was going on, but when | isis, October 4, 1974, a 490-pourd ! kt was discovered that all that was being was warilated at Gy; Charles Mex runled were eyeballs, genitals, suilk sacs farm, fa the extreme southwenem tis and sphineiers, that theory collapied | the sate. Both of. the bulls €n © Then there was a rumor, apparently with: | chewed/eun off -and kes bind enc * out foundation, that the helicopters were | “gamaged.” The loca! vet said st | part of a secret military exercise out Of f cane of death was bisckleg, a dise=s Fort Riley, Kansas. " the Clonridis family of bacteria. ‘The situation invited off-the-wall spec- | ver added, however, that there 82! tlation, especially as more and more! sign of etruggle, os is wus! in ct strange fects became known—such as, biackleg, nor was there much biacd when removing the eyes {rom cattle, the | in the carcass. la fact, the asim! giutilstors would take act only the eye- Spparently been‘ @uutilacd after J t . .