A serial killer may be mutilating cats and various pets across Britain, Police reports. Pet owners across Britain and the police believe serial killer of cats, who has eluded arrest for two years now may be expanding his/her ambitions.
Scooter slipped out her home on the south coast of England one night in the summer, BBC News reported. The next morning, Scooter’s body was found on a nearby lawn — sliced down the length of her belly and disemboweled.
Also, another pet cat, Rusty was found 150 miles to the north - dumped in a bag on a teenage girl’s doorstep, headless, limbless and earless.
Still another cat, Topsy, mutilated in Northampton on Sept. 7; and Squiggles, found partially skinned with her tail cut off in an Addlestone car park on Tuesday. These are just a few of the victims.

More than 370 animals are believed to have been killed and mutilated by the same sick suspect since the first killing in late 2015 of the carcass found near the alleys of a Croydon neighborhood south of London, BBC reported.
Most of the victims are pet cats, though foxes and the occasional rabbit or puppy are sometimes reported — even a baby owl, once. As Peter Holley wrote for The Washington Post last year, the so-called “Croydon Cat Ripper” has certain symbols to his work: “Decapitated, with their tails and ears cut off, stomachs slashed and organs removed, the tortured remains sometimes drained of blood.”
Police have only confirmed a fraction of the hundreds of mutilated animals to be the work of one human mind.
Andy Collin, a Metropolitan police detective in Croydon, told the BBC; “It’s quite possible other people have got on the craze — copycats, if you like,”
However Collin has no doubt the killer exists and has even worked up a psychological profile. “Cats are targeted because they are associated with the feminine. The killer can’t deal with a woman or women who are troubling him,” Collin alleged.
The detective worried that “at some stage he’ll intensify or feel brave enough to move on to defenseless women and girls.”
The killings have already started to spread from a single London suburb in a widening ring, which by now extends from the coast to miles north, east and west of the capital city.
One night in August, the BBC reported, witnesses near the scene of a cat killing in Caterham chased a man with a headlamp or some sort of torch from the area. This led police — through an animal protection group they’ve partnered with — to release a possible description of the killer, and animal rights groups subsequently offered more than $10,000 as a reward for information leading the killer’s arrest.
“He strikes mainly at night in residential areas, often luring his victims with pet food, crab sticks or raw chicken,” the BBC wrote. “He kills them quickly with some sort of blunt force then waits at least half an hour for their blood to coagulate before mutilating their bodies.
“He then tends to display the bodies close to where he’s hunted them down, sometimes in public spaces such as playgrounds.”
The dead cats were first ignored by police, a Vice reporter wrote last year. They were written off as the work of predators or traffic, until news stories went national and made authorities pay attention.
Now, police meet frequently with leaders of South Norwood Animal Rescue and Liberty, whose volunteers try to explore each reported killing as a crime scene.
Police call it Operation Takahe.

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