Horse Slashings and Deaths in Calgary, Alberta, Canada

"The vet said there was a 10-inch hole in her digestive tract about 10 inches inside her rectum. He had another doctor confirm it and told us: 'This horse has been mutilated and we cannot save her.'"

- Guy Elford, Calgary, Alberta Resident

May 11, 2001  Calgary, Alberta, Canada - The Canadian Calgary Herald newspaper recently headlined, "Police say horse mutilations likely work of sexual deviate: Investigators examine links in equine attacks." Calgary law enforcement confirm two horse slashings on April 9 and another eight months before on the Guy and Christine Elford residence. A fourth attack killed Tammy Hambrook's pet horse in 1999. Over the past twenty years, there have been at least a dozen similar equine attacks in the Spy Hill of Calgary. Yet, despite the suspicions that a sexual predator is on the loose, no person has ever been arrested and arraigned on a horse slashing charge.