Two mutilated black cattle were found dead in fields about 60 miles apart, in Canadian and Blaine counties, Oklahoma, following a full moon. They had their sexual organs removed. Mustang Police Chief Ron Lewis said his office had investigated the mutilation of a 1,000-pound Angus cow. Blaine County Under-sheriff Kent Sexton said his office was called to the ranch of Galen Slagell near Hydro the same morning to investigate the mutilation of a 700-pound Angus steer. Although Lewis admitted that he was not versed in the ways of cults, he thought some type of cult celebration coinciding with Passover might be responsible for the mutilations. Both investigations turned up similarities. No blood was found at the scene of either mutilation, and Lewis and Sexton said both cattlle appeared to be 'drained of blood'. The interior and exterior sex organs, tongues and one eye from each animal had been removed. The cow found in Canadian County was missing her left ear and a patch of hide over her ribs on the right side.

The cow's owner, who asked not to be identified, said he had checked his cattle the evening before the mutilation. 'I had just worked them and I knew I didn't have any sick ones. When I went to check them, I saw her and I knew she was dead by the way she was lying.' He initially thought that the cow had been shot and then vandalized by coyotes. A closer examination showed that the mutilation was not the work of coyotes. There were some drops of blood on the ground, but none from the wounds. He said this was odd because when someone shoots a cow, a death struggle occurs, resulting in a pool of blood. There were no tracks, human or animal, around the carcass. 'When I walked up, I left tracks,' he said. He checked the animal carefully but was unable to identify the cause of death.