There’s a rabbit killer on the loose in the Ruhrgebiet. In the last year, over 30 rabbits and an unnamed number of chickens have been found decapitated and drained of blood, the blood and heads taken from the scene by the killer. Rabbit owners and breeders in the area have taken to hiding their beloved pets in cages in the woods and only telling close friends and relatives the location, if they tell anyone at all. Police worry that the killer could escalate from animals to humans. For more information, check out the BBC News video here, or read more in the Berliner Morgenpost: Kaninchen-Ripper vom Ruhrgebiet. As a former house rabbit owner, I can only imagine what the rabbit lovers in the Ruhr Valley are going through and hope the police are able to find the killer soon.
Video Wednesday: German rabbits go into hiding
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Why do rabbit lovers and breeders have their animals/pets in the woods rather than their homes or gardens? Not to minimize the problem of having a psychotic in the area, of course.
The killer has been going into peoples gardens to kill the animals. The police had one theory that the killer is using Google Earth to find homes with rabbit hutches in the gardens. I’m guessing there are also people bringing their rabbits indoors, but the point of putting them in the woods was that the hutches wouldn’t show up in satellite or aerial photos due to the tree cover. The report says owners are bringing their rabbits into their garages and cellars as well.
Well, moving them into the woods won’t do very much good to keep Bunford McStalker from poking around their yards looking for them. Once an image is on Google Earth it can take a while for it to update again. Saves the buns from getting detected in the future of course, but for the short term el creepo will still come looking.
Wow. That’s even more frightening. Someone stalking animals (and perhaps people in the future) with Google Earth.
Gs last blog post..I’m back…and I’m very, very tired.
@cliff: You know that, and I know that, but I’m guessing a significant percentage of bunny owners in the Ruhrgebiet don’t. Did you watch the video? That one girl has quite an elaborate set up out in the woods.
@G: It is freaky. It’s also freaky that there’s some psycho going in to people’s gardens expecting to find a rabbit to kill and he comes up empty-handed. How long till he moves on to the family cat, dog, or the family itself? And what is he doing with the blood and the heads???