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Something Wicked This Way Comes
Something Wicked This Way Comes
t was just six months ago. Animals were mysteriously disappearing in Baton
Rouge neighborhoods. But did an onslaught of media reports about "urbanized
coyotes" distract everyone from one important detail? Just what exactly
happened in Kensington Place?
On June 25th, 2014, residents of the Kensington Place subdivision had to deal
with a gruesome and grisly scene...
"After seeing her. It's not, it's not an anim al attack," says cat owner
Patricia Piland.
The Piland fam ily's pet cat was found in a neighbor's backyard, after
having been cut in two; som ething, Investigators say, was no accident.
Patricia says that Scar, their pet cat, never strayed far from hom e.
"It was intentional. There's no way she was just cut perfectly in half. It
was no accident so we called anim al control and the sheriff's and they
both agreed that som eone intentionally hurt the cat."
M aking things even m ore suspicious, was the fact that the cat was
found one street over, in another neighbor's fenced in backyard. Now
people are attem pting to answer the question "why?" and searching for
clues as to who com m itted the horrendous act. ....something that seems
to have been forgotten with all the media information (or disinformation) about
urban coyotes.
Meanwhile, in Lakeland Florida
Police say three cats have been found m utilated and several other cats
in the area have been reported m issing. Two of the cats were cut in
half, likely done with a knife or another sharp object. Investigators do
not think an anim al such as a coyote caused the injuries, because the
cut incisions appear deliberate and precise.
"This is bizarre, sadistic stuff that we don't want to hear," says Sgt.
Gary Gross with Lakeland PD. "That's why we're out here in full force
trying to resolve this."
Lea Ellen DeW itt is the unfortunate cat owner...
"There was no hair, there was no blood, there were no guts..." she
stated.
The owner says that the cuts on the cat were not jagged, as if done by
a wild anim al, but clean, as if done by surgical equipm ent. To add to
the suspicion of it all, a fam ily down the street reported finding it's cat
m utilated in the sam e fashion, and two m ore of DeW itt's cats are
m issing, however, their fates are unknown.
Similar reports were appearing in Texas and Mississippi within the same time
frame, all eerily reminiscent of incidents which occurred some 50 years ago:
"The reports of horrible new nocturnal m utilations com e alm ost
weekly, the latest last weekend, when a tiger-and-white striped tabby
was found in two pieces. Oddly, no one ever hears any noise, and dogs
do not bark. There is never any blood on the ground, just a torn feline
carcass on the front lawn when the sun rises over Orange County.
Sixty-seven victim s have been found in the last three m onths m onths
alone, som e of them cut in half with what som e say is alm ost surgical
precision, others disem boweled or skinned."
Paralleling events of today, wildlife experts and the media had bombarded the
public with information regarding "urbanized coyotes." However, pet owners,
overwhelmed by constant reports of ritualistic animal mutilations felt "all signs
point to som ething very unnatural...som ething sinister..."
...and they were correct.
In a state that seems to breed cults and serial killers, and a city that is intimately
familiar with them, should people really only be concerned with coyotes? I think
not...
Hosanna Church
In a recent interview, True Detective creator Nic
Pizzolatto told Entertainm ent Weekly that his show
drew inspiration from an incredibly horrifying real
case of ! a tanism and sexual abuse in rural
Louisiana in the early 2000s.
.and then we have what happened in Kensinton Place and the other missing cats
all over the Gulf Coast. But perhaps the media is right. Urbanized Coyote