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FBI file: Animal Mutilation, Animal Mutilation Part 04

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This FBI file section compiles New Mexico State Police reports by Officer Gabe Valdez on 1978 cattle mutilations at Manuel Gomez's ranch near Dulce, a Los Alamos laboratory letter calling tissue findings inconclusive, and a December 1978 letter from Senator Harrison Schmitt asking the Justice Department to reopen an investigation. It also includes a Justice Department request that the FBI investigate 15 mutilations on Indian lands, and a report on an April 1979 Albuquerque conference that recommended central coordination of mutilation data.

  • p. 7 …INCIDENT TYPE Cattle Mutilation 7. INCIDENT LOCATION Dulce, New Mexico 8. INCIDENT DATE 6-14-78…
  • p. 9 …They have been marked years in advance for mutilation. Assisting in this investigation is Cattle Inspector…
  • p. 10 …Cockburn implies the investigation may have been terminated because cattle mutilation per se is not a…
  • p. 11 …There have been a total of 65 cattle mutilations, and six horse mutilations, reported in New…
  • p. 12 …Adams has additional information which may be of assistance to the FBI concerning previous cattle mutilations…
  • p. 13 …SAC, ALBUQUERQUE UNSUBS; CIR - MISCELLANEOUS FIFTEEM For the past seven or eight years mysterious cattle mutilations…
  • p. 14 …Federal assistance in seeking to solve these cattle mutilations. Bureau telephone call of 2/13/79…
  • p. 15 …If we are merely to investigate and direct our efforts toward the 15 mutilated cattle on…
  • p. 18 …THE MUTILATIONS OF 15 ANIMALS NOTE: This case involves the mutilation of 15 cattle in the…
  • p. 19 …Enclosed for the Bureau are three copies of an LHM captioned "Cattle Mutilations", dated 4/25…
  • p. 20 …It would seem appropriate that if FBI participation in investigation of cattle mutilations is desired by…
  • p. 21 If the Albuquerque FBI Office is expected to broaden its examination of the cattle mutilation, additional…
  • p. 22 …79, captioned "Santa Fe DA to Coordinate Cattle Mutilation Probe". The article states the Santa Fe…
  • p. 23 …Senator SCHMITT expressed his hope that the FBI could conduct investigation into the cattle mutilations under…
  • p. 24 ## CATTLE MUTILATIONS FORREST S. PUTMAN, Special Agent in Charge (SAC), Albuquerque Office of the FBI, explained…
  • p. 25 ## CATTLE MUTILATIONS DAVID PERKINS, Director of the Department of Research at Libre School in Farasita, Colorado…
  • p. 26 ## CATTLE MUTILATIONS TOMMY BLAND, Lewisville, Texas, told the conference he has been studying UFO activities for…
  • p. 27 ## CATTLE MUTILATIONS During the afternoon of April 20, 1979, law enforcement officers met with U.S…

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8. NARRATIVE On 6-14-78 I was contacted by Mr. Manuel Gomez at 2:00 P.M. reference to a retaliation which had taken place at his owner range 13 miles East of Daley, Y. To investigate at the scene revealed that a 4 year old Ereford native boy had been retaliated. The carcass was lying on its side with tongue and sex organs precisely removed. Finnish blood from her nose was visible and the left front leg was broken. Heris were visible on the lower rear left leg them once the claw or vice had been fastened. No injuries on the carcass award the carcass upon retaliation site was approximately 800 yards North of the spot there Manuel Gomez found retaliated animal on June 14, 1976. Investigation at the scene showed that the animal elsewhere and retaliated and then natural and damaged. This animal had 57 hours, 56 minutes and 24 seconds for tests. This writer has concluded general cattle retaliation in this has been observed that no retaliations have occurred during indicible weather.

On 7-16-73 approximately 72 head of cattle belonging to Vanuel Guzer were housed in night hours with an ultra-violet light. Out of the 72 cattle which were chained, 2 four year old cows and 3 two month old heifers had a distinctive fluorescence substance in the left forecarm of their body. Samples of the fluorescent substance were sent to be by a private laboratory At the time of this writing, no results have been obtained. It was done by Mr. Howard Burrows, who has been most helpful in these investigations.

Mr. Manuel Gomez winteri approximately 120 head of cattle within the village of New Mexico. Mr. Gomez has had 4 animals nutilated to date. It is the theory of this 9. RECOVERED PROPERTY

10.	CURRENCY	JEWELRY	CLOTHING	VEHICLES	OFFICE EQUIPMENT	T.Y.R.
Stolen	$	$	$	$	$	$
Recovered	$	$	$	$	$	$
	FIREARMS	HOUSEHOLD	CONSUMABLES	LIVESTOCK	OTHER	TO
Stolen	$	$	$	$	$	$
Recovered	$	$	$	$	$	$

11. CASE STATUS

λ* Active Cleared by Arrest Exceptionally Cleared Unfounded

13. REPORTING OFFICER (Signature & Number)

14. APPROVING OFFICER (Signature & Number)

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FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 27 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.