Kathy Cooper was tending to her cattle this week when she discovered another cow had been killed and mutilated - approximately one year from the first time it happened.
Cooper and her husband John have lost more than 20 cows on their 200-plus acre South Hall farm to a mysterious crime over the past year.
Despite their best efforts and help from the Hall County Sheriff's Office and the University of Georgia's veterinary school, they are no closer to finding out who is killing their cows and removing only their udders and genitals.
"Detectives don't have any clues what they do with these parts," Cooper said. "It's very obvious that's what they're after. That's all they cut off."
The 5-year-old cow Cooper discovered dead Monday exhibited the same surgically precise, almost spherical, incisions on its belly where its udders and milk bag had been cleanly removed.
Cooper found just one trace of whoever killed the cow left in the soft dirt caused by Monday's rain - but no footprints leading anywhere.
"You could see where they went in there on their knees and elbows and lifted her tail up and just cut it off," she said. "That's the first sign of any kind."
Cooper said the mutilated cows are typically found in a gully or wooded area rather than open pasture. The first week of May, seven cows were killed and mutilated on their property. Several more were killed last fall.
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