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On Monday, the
city released a surveillance video of what appeared to be a
woman dropping off the headless carcass of a goat, along with a
similarly mutilated rat and catfish, and a bag of decapitated
red hens, said Gina Knepp, spokeswoman for the Sacramento
Department of Animal Control.
"It's bizarre," Knepp said. "We don't know if it's religion; we
don't know if we have a sick individual in our community that
simply likes to cut the heads off animals and dump them where
people can see them."
Since the beginning of the year, more than a dozen sets of
remains have been found in Sacramento, some of them in plastic
bags placed near railroad tracks.
Past incidents involved goats, roosters and a tortoise. Some
have also involved oil, seeds that are used in some
Afro-Caribbean religions and dollar bills covered in blood, she
said.
In the video, someone police say appears to be a woman parks a
white van on 26th Street in Sacramento and gets out, struggling
under the weight of an object that she carries around the side
of a yellow wall.
Police are hoping to find the woman and talk to her, Knepp said.
(Reporting by Sharon Bernstein; Editing by Ken Wills)
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