How are serial animal killers investigated?

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For those, like myself, who are interested in Forensics

Dozens of swans have been slaughtered around the UK this year, a serial cat killer is on the loose in Norfolk, and over the past three decades hundreds of horses have been mutilated. But how is serial animal violence investigated, asks Tom de Castella.



Most people have seen enough television shows and read enough newspaper reports to know what happens when a murder investigation starts.



The crime scene is sealed off, forensic officers move in looking for fingerprints and DNA evidence, detectives go door- to-door. But what's the procedure for investigators when the victim of a killing is an animal?



Every month gruesome cases come to light. Swans are regularly in the firing line. At least 40 of the birds were killed by humans in Somerset during the first three months of the year.

Rest of article and link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13520315

 

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