Cattle Mutilation

Cattle mutilation is the ranch-country mystery: livestock found dead with bloodless, oddly precise soft-tissue removal — eyes, tongue, udder — often with no tracks around. Waves of cases in the 1970s brought FBI attention; the official reading is predators plus decomposition plus dehydrated tissue mimicking cuts, and controlled carcass studies support much of it. Ranchers who found the animals tend to stay unconvinced, and their first-person accounts — the silence, the circling dogs that would not approach — are what get judged here.

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