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- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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- _Report on Cattle Mutilations_
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- Sand Mountain, Alabama
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- Press Conference - Fyffe, Alabama
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- "Presented by the Fyffe Police Department; Fyffe, Alabama"
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- Charles "Junior" Garmany, Chief of Police
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- Boyd Graben, Mayor, City of Fyffe
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- Ted Oliphant, Investigating Officer
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- Date: Wednesday, April 7, 1993, 1 P.M..
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- INTRODUCTION
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- Beginning in November of 1992, the Fyffe Police Department has been conducting
- an investigation into unexplained cattle mutilations in cooperation with
- neighboring police and law enforcement agencies. These reported incidents began
- on October 20, 1992 and have continued through the last week in Marshall and
- DeKalb counties.
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- To date over thirty (30) animals have been discovered dead in pastures with
- various internal and external organs missing. The incisions examined on there
- animals exhibit a precise surgical cutting. In many of the cases there has been
- evidence of extremely high heat at the tissue excisions. The absence of
- physical evidence adds to the mystery at the majority of mutilation sites.
- Though many animals have been found in soft pasture land, and in many cases
- mud, there have been no footprints, tracks, or marks found anywhere near the
- mutilated animals.
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- To date no police agency has established a suspect or motive for these
- incidents of phantom surgery perpetrated on area livestock. Neither has an
- eyewitness or informant come forward to offer any credible insight or
- testimony.
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- The first documented incident of cattle mutilation was reported on October 20,
- 1992 by Albertville cattle farmer John Strawn. The animal was discovered in a
- wooded area of Mr. Strawn's pasture by a neighbor who found the animal dead,
- lying on its side. The animal's entire milk sac was missing with no evidence of
- blood on the animal, nor on the ground where it lay. The neighbor said the
- neat, oval incision where the udder had been removed appeared to be charred.
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- Other farmers in the Albertville area soon started reporting similar cases over
- the next two months. The same organs were reported missing, though what was
- taken varied from animal to animal. In many cases the rectum had been cored out
- neatly, with no evidence of blood or body fluid present. On female livestock
- the sex organs had been removed in an identical fashion with clean, bloodless
- incisions. On male livestock, the sex organs had also been removed, again in
- oval, bloodless incisions. In early January Albertville Police Department's
- Chief of Detectives, Tommy Cole, reported that his ranch, too, had fallen
- victim to the mutilators when a Black Angus steer fell prey to the phantom
- surgeons. It was at that point that the Fyffe Police Department began working
- closely with the Albertville Police Department to further investigate the
- continuing incidents of mutilations.
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- A week after Chief Detective Cole reported his steer, the mutilations struck
- again in Albertville. The next week mutilated cattle were reported near Fyffe
- in Grove Oak A week later, in Dawson, just outside of Fyffe. During the first
- week in February, 1993, more than nine (9) cases of mutilations were
- discovered and reported in Marshall and DeKalb counties.
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- Throughout all the cases, cattle farmers and their neighbors reported seeing
- or hearing helicopters in the vicinity either before or shortly after
- mutilated cattle were discovered.
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- Comparison to other cattle mutilations documented by law enforcement in
- forty-eight (48) other states since 1963 shows that the cases recently
- documented here in northeast Alabama are part of a national problem.
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- In over ten thousand (10,000) reported cases of livestock mutilations reported
- since 1967, the organs and tissue taken are always the same. Sex organs
- removed, tongue cut deep into the throat and removed. Individual eyes and cars
- or sometimes both have been excised. The jaw stripped to the bone in a large
- oval cut and all tissue cut clean. Rectums are cored out, almost like a
- stovepipe had been inserted and all the tissue and muscle has been pulled out.
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- All of this has been accomplished on these thousands of animals with no
- evidence of blood present at the incision in some cases the entire blood supply
- of the animal had been drained, yet without cardio-vascular collapse.
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- Throughout the documented history of these cattle mutilations, no one has ever
- been charged or prosecuted with the crime. No one has ever been caught.
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- Recently many area residents and public officials have offered multiple causes
- and suspects they believe may be responsible for these animals wounds. Some say
- it's predator animals like coyotes or buzzards. Many people believe it's the
- work of a satanic cult or of college students. Never evidence collected and
- analyzed by Ph.D. scientists of material collected from local animals and
- pastures clearly rules out both groups.
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- TWO SIGNIFICANT CASES
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- On January 31, 1993, a rancher in the Dawson Community led investigators to the
- carcass of a Black Angus cow. The animal's genitals and rectum had been cored
- out in one large incision that left a hole the size of coffee can. The animal's
- jaw had been completely stripped in an oval incision that encompassed The
- entire right side of the animal's face. The tongue was completely gone, cut
- deep down into the throat. There was no blood present on the animal itself, nor
- on the ground surrounding it.
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- Further examination revealed a flaky white material on the animal's right rib
- cage and on the ground five (5) feet from the carcass. The material was placed
- in the empty wrapper of a cigarette pack and transported to the Fyffe Police
- Department where it was transferred to a glass jar. While removing the flaky
- particles from the cigarette wrapper, the material came in contact with the
- brass tip of a ball-point pen. Within one second of contact with the brass,
- the material melted into an almost clear liquid. To reduce the risk of this
- happening to the remaining material, the rest was shaken out into a jar where
- it remained unaffected. This white, flaky material was then air expressed to a
- molecular biologist at a leading eastern University for analysis.
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- After two tests, the scientist determined that the substance was composed of
- aluminum, titanium, oxygen and silicon in significant amounts. He stated that
- the amount of titanium was larger than he would ever expect to see in any
- substance and that there was no way this combination of elements could ever
- occur in nature. This material has now been sent to another scientist for a
- second opinion. When this second analysis is completed we will release his name
- and the major eastern university responsible for the analyses.Included in
- your press package is the preliminary analysis, a photograph of the substance
- and the technical read out on its composition.
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- The second significant case in these incidents of livestock mutilations
- occurred on February 7,1993. This time in Crossville, Alabama. Cattle farmer
- David McClendon noticed during his morning head count that he was missing a
- three-week-old calf. He went searching for and found the animal in a wooded
- area dead with a large portion of its right hind quarter missing. Examining the
- animal, Mr. McClendon found that all the calf's internal organs were missing
- and all that he could see was the clean, empty chest cavity. There was no sign
- of blood on or near the animal. There were no teeth marks on the tissue nor on
- the exposed leg bones. David McClendon called local and county law enforcement.
- Shortly after they arrived the county deputy stated that the animal had been
- killed by predators and left. Mr. McClendon wasn't satisfied that this was what
- happened to his animal and later that day he brought the calf to the Fyffe
- Police Department for a second opinion. A first look at the calf gave the
- impression that the animal had been eaten on by wild animals, but a closer look
- revealed something else, according to Oliphant.
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- The entire edge of the animals wounds were straight and even, There was no
- evidence of tearing, ripping, or chewing anywhere. Below the right leg joint
- the hide had been cut in a square, with two (2) right angle incisions. Close
- examination (videotaped) showed that the actual incision appeared to be
- serrated, almost like steps with notches at each base. During the initial
- examination of the calf, six (6) tissue samples were taken from the animal and
- preserved in Mason jars. These tissue samples were sent to Dr.John Altschuler,
- formerly of the University of Colorado, who now runs his own state of the art
- pathology and hematology laboratory. Dr. Altschuler states that all six (6)
- tissue samples he examined from
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- David McClendon's calf had been exposed to high heat, the tissue had been
- cooked. Dr. Altschuler said the temperature required to do this would have to
- be in "the hundreds of degrees and possibly higher" to burn the tissue in this
- manner. As for the 'stepped and notched' incisions, Dr. Altschuler stated that
- since he examined the first mutilated animal back in 1967, he has seen this
- type of cut over and over again.
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- CONCLUSION
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- With these two lab reports of two different samples in two separate cases, we
- are forced to conclude that the predator animals cannot be blamed for the
- majority of the mutilation cases documented.
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- Dr. Jim Armstrong, Auburn professor of zoology and wildlife science concurs. He
- states, "It would be obvious if a coyote have been tearing through. The wounds
- would not be similar to a smooth cut. Coyotes bite through and pull to tear
- away the flesh. It would have a 'chewed on look'. There are other scavenger
- animals such as vultures that will eat at the softer regions of a cow, but
- there's not going to be these clean, surgical-type cuts. There is no way a
- coyote or other predator inflicted those wounds." In the past week Dr.
- Armstrong has examined dozens of photographs of mutilated cows taken by the
- Fyffe Police Department. He states, "I went over the pictures with a USDA
- expert along with several wildlife biologists. With the exception of one
- individual, we all agreed that many of the cases were not typical predatory
- damage. The caution here is that we're dealing with photos, that there is no
- other physical evidence for us to look at. "But the USDA agent and most other
- agreed with my conclusion that many of the pictures were not coyote or other
- predator damage."
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- DeKalb County Auburn Extension Agent Curtis O'Daniel also discounts the
- likelihood of predator animals removing circles of cowhide. "Predators are not
- bad about eating hide, they'll eat up the rest of it first. Along with the
- bons, the hide will be one of the last things to go."
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- These statements made by expert professionals agree with the statements made
- earlier this year by the Fyffe Police Department, that predators are not
- responsible for the mutilations. The conclusion, however, indicates a greater
- mystery: Who is doing this and why is there a lack (for the most part) of
- physical evidence at the scene?
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- Police Chief Junior Garmany and Mayor Boyd Graben, themselves involved in
- farming, believe the results of our investigation require further attention It
- is incumbent on all of us Military, state andfederal government to assists
- farmers to find out who the phantom surgeons are. It seems basic to help the
- man who is responsible for ensuring there is food available for our dinner
- tables. The farmer is not interested in politically correct official
- explanations. He wants to know what has happened to his livestock It should be
- the responsibility of all law-enforcement to join together to find an answer to
- this problem that is adversely affecting the cattle farmer, here in Alabama.
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- [Ends]
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