Unusual Animal Deaths in Australia and London, England

© 1999 by Linda Moulton Howe

August 25, 1999 Victoria, Australia ­ A "mysterious killer" is stalking sheep in Gippsland and 250 kilometers (155 miles) across country in northeast Victoria and about eighty miles northeast of Melbourne. "Killers strike again," headlined The Herald Sun on July 11, 1999. Beneath the headline is a photograph of farmer Adrian Jackson with one of his slaughtered rams. The Jackson farm in Violet Town, Victoria has been losing 100 sheep a year.