Crime & Safety

Police Find Decapitated Goat Bodies Near Athens, Ga., Public School

The animals' headless bodies, including a chicken and a rooster, had been arranged.

 

on Sunday found the decapitated bodies of several goats and fowl near after nearby residents complained.

According to an ACC Police incident report, people living in adjacent Dogwood Apartments told officers there were some headless animals on the path linking the apartment complex and Stroud. The person who contacted police didn’t know if the dead animals were deer or goats.

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The responding officer walked through the gate at the back of the school, and found a headless goat. The head had been placed under the goat's body, near the animal’s sex organs, the report says.

A little further from the gate were a dead black rooster, decapitated, on the left side of the path, and across from it, a headless white chicken on the right side.

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About 100 feet from the gate the officer reported finding a goat head in the middle of the path. Nearby were two headless goat bodies, one stacked on top of the other.

There did not seem to have been a struggle, according to the police report. There were no blood spatters and no trails of blood leading from the bodies.


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