Or just someone that is seriously deranged.
Somebody has been hanging dead cats in bags from a tree like Christmas tree ornaments.
This has bad juju written all over it.
Ok, I just got the chills reading that.
Bad juju is putting it mildly!
While that’s one of the indicators of a serial pathology according to experts, most people who harm animals never take it beyond that. And, thanks to Internet and the need for people to brag about what they have done, I don’t foresee this particular offender being on the streets for very much longer.
I like this part:
Phew! At least it wasn’t the Satanists!
Since it is done “like a Christmas tree”, we can’t rule out those Christians, though!
Maybe those cats just messed with the wrong rat.
Yeah well that’s actually cold comfort given that all of this sack-hanging has occurred in just the last year. Twenty five is a lot of trips to the woods in a very short time.
The ritual is the part where he goes out and carefully hangs the sacks on the trees. I mean.
And, no. This is not somebody who just couldn’t think of a simpler way to handle the death of twenty five of his pets.
Ok - it gets worse.
Here’s a more detailed version of the story
Apparently people in the neighborhood reported last year that a bunch of rats & cats appeared to have been poisoned. Might be unrelated, of course.
OTOH, here’s another article which says some of the cats were killed by a blow to the head:
They picked up a variety of blunt instruments just laying around the woods (which sounds like a prime candidate for some napalm, even without the cats). The stuff might just be debris. The woods is in a fenced in area at the end of a dead end street. So not really the sort of place that attracts strangers.
This article says the cat poisonings were unrelated but gives no other details.
It’s a bad scene all around. If I lived in that neighborhood, I would be stocking up on torches.
I’m just picturing one (any) of the detective teams from Law & Order looking into this. “Lieutenant, we’ve got people murders to investigate.” “The mayor wants you to stay on the cats.”
Perhaps cats annoy him and he is an evil bastard.
There was a guy on a carnivourous plant mailing list who would catch squirrels (they tear up sarracenia pitchers to get at the insects inside) and plunge the live trap into a container of water to drown them, presumably giggling all the while.
He got into a lot of email fights.
Yah. I agree on the torches.
I have met people who would not hesitate to shoot a cat; people who hated them and felt like they were always digging cat shit out of their garden. I thought they were evil bastards, though I admit I have thought about shooting dogs that I have seen running free through my neighborhood and almost went and bought a gun because one growled at my daughter in my own yard. That said, the whole ritualistic hanging from tree thing is a different kettle of fish entirely.
Did he display their carcasses by hanging them on a tree?
First, I suggest if a he/she/probably he is a serial killer to move. “Yonkers” doesn’t go well with a cool nickname. “the Bonkers from Yonkers” sounds like something from the Daily Mail.
I feel safe knowing the police have an official occult crimes unit, who can diagnose rituals. “Nope, Bob. No candles or chalk!”
The name doesn’t have to reflect Yonkers (the city’s previously rather well-known serial killer did alright with “Son of Sam”).*
*has anyone considered that these latest crimes might be the work of a renegade Labrador retriever?
How about “Son of Sylvester”?
Better hope he’s not the “Pedant Killer” 
Thuffering Thuccotash! Ith the Thon of Tham!
One of the neighbours is explaining that he didn’t notice 25 dead cats hanging in the trees, because it is always really trashy back there.
Delightful neighbourhood … :eek: