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Article: Carcass likely used in ritual: South Buffalo boys find headless goat.
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- The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)
- Article date:
- April 14, 2007
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Byline: T.J. Pignataro
Apr. 14--The decapitation and mutilation of a goat, whose carcass was found this week near South Park, likely resulted from a ritualistic sacrifice practiced in one of several Afro-Caribbean traditions, according to an internationally recognized authority on ritual crime.
Don Rimer, a retired 33-year veteran of the Virginia Beach, Va., Police Department, says the facts of the case suggest that the animal probably was slaughtered in a ritual designed "to remove a sickness" or as an offering to a spirit.
"It was not a threat or placed there to frighten and it's not an announcement; that's not the purpose of it at all," ...