Published: January 8, 2019

THE DISCOVERY OF DECAPITATED DEER, A DOG WITH ITS EYES GOUGED OUT AND A CALF WITH ITS HEART MISSING HAVE SOME LEWIS COUNTY RESIDENTS SHAKEN. MEDIA SOURCES REPORT MORE THAN A DOZEN DEAD ANIMALS HAVE BEEN FOUND IN A CONCERNING STATE ABOUT A MILE FROM THE NATCHEZ TRACE PARKWAY ON RACK CLAYTON ROAD. IN ALL 11 DOE WERE FOUND SATURDAY AFTERNOON SOME DECAPTITATED AND SOME SKINNED. A DEAD DOG WAS FOUND AS WELL AS A DEAD CALF WITH A ROPE TIED AROUND IT'S LEGS. THE HOHENWALD WOMAN WHO FOUND THE CARCASS, ADVISED THIS IS NOT THE ACT OF A NORMAL HUNTER AND THAT THE HUNTING CLUB IN THE AREA HAS REACHED OUT TO HER TO ADVISE THAT THEY WOULD BE PUTTING UP CAMERAS IN THE AREA. TWRA ADVISED IT APPEARS TO BE DUMP SITE AND THEY COULD CIT THE INDIVIDUALS BUT THEY WOULD NEED TO FIND OUT WHO IS RESPONSIBLE. THE LEWIS COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT IS ALSO INVESTIGATING.