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Calf killer confesses, police say |
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Written by Heather Johnston
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Monday, November 03 2008 |
SULLIVAN – Law enforcement authorities say an 18-year-old Sullivan teen shot, stabbed and tortured a calf off Spring Creek Road in the dark of night on or about Oct. 14 and also shot at two other cows, including one that was later found dead near Hardecke and Elmont roads. The suspect has allegedly confessed and another suspect has admitted to witnessing the events.
Kody D. Heuer, 18, of the 2800-block of Highway D south of Sullivan, has been charged in Franklin County with felony animal abuse (persistent offender) in what police describe as a case of intentional torture and mutilation. According to a probable cause affidavit and statement filed by the prosecuting attorney’s office, Heuer “purposely caused injury or suffering to a calf, and the suffering caused was the result of torture and mutilation consciously inflicted by the defendant while the animal was alive.”
Authorities say that on or about Oct. 14, 2008, two adult cows and a calf were shot in the area of the 5000 block of Little Spring Creek Road and the 7000 block of Hardecke Road north of Sullivan. According to the prosecutor, Heuer confessed that he shot a young calf about three or four times with a .22 caliber rifle while standing on the road and heard the bullets hit the calf in the field yards away from the fence. Knowing that the calf wasn’t dead, Heuer told police that he then went into the field to look at the calf.
The calf, Heuer said, followed him to the fence, where he then drug the calf through the fence. The calf then fell to its side in the middle of Spring Creek Road. At some point shortly thereafter, Heuer said he stabbed the calf in its side and then tried to cut its throat. The calf was then placed in the middle of the road and adorned with a pumpkin and scarecrow that was allegedly stolen from a nearby Halloween display located near a roadside mailbox.
Police say the victim of the calf killing found the dead calf in the road and a cow dead in the field. A juvenile witness in the case said that Heuer shot at two other cows in the area and that the events took place in the early morning hours. On Hardecke Road, a dead 800-pound heifer was found shot near the intersection of Hardecke and Elmont roads.<
“I found it about a hundred yards into the field,” said the landowner where the heifer was found fatally shot through the eye. “I found it in the evening right before I was going to get on my 4-wheeler and go looking for it.” Law enforcement authorities determined that it had been shot.
Heuer’s bond was set at $10,000 but he (Heuer) was released Nov. 5, 2008 from the Franklin County jail on his own recognizance.
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