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FBI file: Animal Mutilation, Animal Mutilation Part 05

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 33 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This part of the FBI Animal Mutilation file covers 1979 to 1980 and includes FBI memoranda, letters to Senator Harrison Schmitt and Senate staff, and press clippings. At the Justice Department's request, the Albuquerque office investigated fifteen animal mutilations on Indian lands in New Mexico, but it did not identify anyone responsible. Kenneth Rommel, a former agent who directed the District Attorney's project, sent flakes from a pickup truck in Taos to the FBI Laboratory, which identified them as white exterior house paint.

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# FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Laboratory Work Sheet

To: Mr. Kenneth M. Rommel, Jr. Director Office of the District Attorney First Judicial District Animal Mutilation Project Post Office Box 1209 Fenopola New Mexico 87532

Re: Espanola, New Mexico 87532

MUTILATIONS OF ANIMALS ON INDIAN RESERVATION; TAOS, NEW MEXICO, JULY 1978

Examination requested by:

FBI FILE NO.

LAB. NO. 00307063 S MK RI

Reference:

Addresse

Examination requested:

Instrumental Anal. Unit	SPEC.	EX.	S.A.
07. Explosive Consenition
24. Instrumental Point	1	3	R1
71. Polyacid
72. Dose
34. Miscellaneous	1	2	R1

Specimens received

Letter dated March 5, 1980

Chemical Analyses - INSTRUMENTAL ANALYSES

Substance from pick up Q1 rec'd from MK 3/17/80 Red. to Aaron 3/25/80.

Q1 Rec'd in plastic jellibox from Garon ( n to a typical acrylic later exterior / cross point , or emulsion type

microscopically, the particles in it are typical of a white (housepaint-type) latex enamel. There appears to be wood fibres on the bottom surface in several areas and the bottom is striated/dirty as if it originated from a wood substrate, quite possibly a window frame or something similar. CHCl3 - acetone, clear film blends out C51H40O - acetone - cloudy film remains on slide after advent corporation.

difluoride = essen. reg. (al. effervence noted)

core. H2SO4 = residue on bottom surface; partially less.

& effervence al. on appear. color change.

Typical white paint composition TiO2 (lustre) = prime white pigment + CoCO3 & Take on typical extender GC = any lit. FT-TH + alumina

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