2013: Cattle mutilations back Ranchers, lawmen baffled by crime wave

By KATIE OYAN Tribune Staff Writer CONRAD — This is the kind of déja vu Everett King could do without. About 15 years ago, he discovered the grisly remains of one of his cattle that had died mysteriously. In October, it happened again. King said it looked as though a surgeon had sliced into his 7-year-old Charolais, the way its right eye and ear were cut off — not to mention the way its reproductive organs had been cored. What King finds most unusual, however, is that two months later the carcass lies right where he found it, untouched. “Predators won’t eat it,” said King, who ranches outside Valier, south of Lake Frances. “It should have been cleaned up and gone a long time ago.“ Ranchers reported […] Read More