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FBI file: Animal Mutilation, Animal Mutilation Part 04

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 27 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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. 1 …INCIDENT LOCATION Dulce, New Mexico 8. INCIDENT DATE 24-24-76 11. COMPLAINANTS Manuel Gomez 14…
  • p. 4 …similar mutation approximately 13 miles East of Dulce on June 13, 1976 which also involved one…
  • p. 6 …881 Officer Gabe Valdez New Mexico State Police Post Office Box 212 Dulce, New Mexico 87528…
  • p. 7 …INCIDENT LOCATION Dulce, New Mexico 8. INCIDENT DATE 6-14-78 2:00 PM 9. STRANGER…
  • p. 24 …GABE VALDEZ, New Mexico State Police, Dulce, New Mexico, reported he has investigated the death of…

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1. AGENCY ORI 07

You Verino State Police

2. CASE NUMBER

3. FILE NUMBER

that whoever is responsible for these mutilations is operating out of a well undercover truck van which is heavily guarded. This van successfully carries the craft which operates within a 40 mile radius. This makes it rather difficult investigating officers to personally witness or find clues to these mutilation area where the mutilations occur is carefully analysed weeks in advance. They have been marked years in advance for mutilation.

Assisting in this investigation is Cattle Inspector Jim Dyrd and Officer Bo Johnston, New Mexico Game and Fish.

## 9. RECOVERED PROPERTY

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

COPIES: White, Pink, Golden - AGENCY. Yellow - STATE (UCR)

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