The “Croydon cat killer” mentioned in this article is a terrible cat murderer working up and down England. City after city. He’s really cruel - battering cats to death in public places, then waiting, at the location, until the blood had congealed and then cutting bits off and leaving the remains there. Recently a biologist looked at the remains and said, “The fucking cats were hit by cars and then scavenged by foxes. We went through this exact same panic some decades back, don’t you remember?” Fox bites are consistently being misinterpreted as knife wounds. Apparently, given it’s still being reported as a human killer, not everyone has accepted that assessment, even though it perfectly fits all the evidence and a human killer does not.
This case sounds like it really is a human responsible, for some of the incidents, at least. But the sloppy, ignorant forensics generally done on animals means that some of the evidence of human action is no such thing, so the killer (or killers) might not be as prolific as they’re believed to be.
From an early age, Dahmer manifested an interest in animals. Friends later recalled Dahmer initially collected large insects, dragonflies, and butterflies, which he placed inside jars. Later, he collected animal carcasses from the roadside, occasionally accompanied by one or more of his few friends; he dismembered these animals either at home or in an expanse of woodland behind the family home.
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With live animals, he explored their bodies to discover where their bones were located.
Eh, I have a window that works as a cat door. Satan and Possum can come and go as they please, which is great in that I never need kitty litter. Either one of them would quickly go nuts if they weren’t allowed out and I really don’t want to know what Satan would be like then. I bleed enough as it is and she likes me.
This is awful. I’ve similarly been seeing mutilated birds and mice lying around my garden. Perhaps the task force could extend its remit to finding those murderers too.
At first I wondered if it was just an invasive species zealot, then I got to the mutilation bit. Nope garden variety psychopath. Get him before he graduates to people.
In these modern times, that’s just called prison: a place where the criminally insane receive abuse instead of treatment and then are released back into society.
There was an alert on my phone that a 13th victim was found today and why investigators think there could be more than one suspect involved. When I clicked through to the local article it didn’t elaborate on the multiple suspects.
I’m seeing more and more news about people torturing and killing animals not only in the Uk but around the world. I guess it has something to do with all that hidden aggression people have but don’t release.
I feel really sorry for the animals and wish there was a way to stop this violence.
