Cattle mutilations in Colorado - a Rocky Mountain mystery + video

The bodies are horribly mutilated as if with surgical precision - eyes removed, innards gone, the skin grotesquely peeled away. The predator, or predators, have left no footprints to reveal their identities and no blood stains on the earth to speak to the slaughter. Their gory souvenirs vanish with them. There have been eight such mutilations in Colorado this year, all with the same baffling lack of evidence. And while Colorado has been the focus of current activity, this strange phenomenon has appeared in just about every Midwestern state. Last year it was Missouri, before that Nebraska and South Dakota. Reports of similar activity have come from as far away as Switzerland. But Colorado seems to have a special affinity for these strange events. What is widely considered the very first animal mutilation of the modern era - the strange killing of a horse known as Snippy - occurred in Colorado in 1967. Snippy's strange death set the pattern for more recent mutilations and, oddly, her bones eventually ended up on eBay...read more

Here's a video of rancher Manuel Sanchez telling his story.