{"id":5245,"date":"2018-03-30T09:50:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T13:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=5245"},"modified":"2025-07-09T12:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T16:36:18","slug":"killer-on-the-loose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2018\/03\/30\/killer-on-the-loose\/","title":{"rendered":"Killer on the Loose"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>\u201cI don\u2019t know who is doing this, but whoever it is, they\u2019re going to pay,\u201d Angela Cote said. What she is referring to are the dead animals that keep showing up all over her yard. Mice, crows, pigeons and even squirrels have been found.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>\u201cI have my suspicions about the neighbor across the street. I haven\u2019t caught him in the act yet though, so I can\u2019t be sure,\u201d Angela\u2019s husband Jacob said. \u201cIt\u2019s scaring my youngest daughter and I\u2019m honestly just sick of having to be the one to pick them up and take care of them,\u201d he said<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>After weeks of finding these animals, the couple finally decided to set up cameras to catch who the killer is. For the first few days, Jacob and Angela had no luck in catching them. No new animals showed up on the lawn. It seemed as though the killings had stopped.\u00a0 <\/span>After those few days, however, they found one small mouse, this time left right on their front steps.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>\u201cI don\u2019t understand why anyone would do this. Do they think it\u2019s funny? Because it\u2019s not. It\u2019s just sad and gross,\u201d Angela said as Jacob took care of the mouse.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>This time while checking the cameras it was revealed who the killer was.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>\u201cI can\u2019t believe it. How on earth did we not figure that out for ourselves?\u201d Angela said. The killer had been none other than their own cat, Oliver.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>\u201cOliver is known for killing animals, but not to this degree. Usually it\u2019s just one or two every few weeks. I guess he\u2019s just excited for spring after being cooped up inside all winter,\u201d Jacob said.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Luckily, Oliver seems to be slowing down a bit now that\u2019s he\u2019s got all that energy out of his system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t know who is doing this, but whoever it is, they\u2019re going to pay,\u201d Angela Cote said. What she is referring to are the dead animals that keep showing up all over her yard. Mice, crows, pigeons and even squirrels have been found. \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cI have my suspicions about the neighbor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8695,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245\/revisions\/8695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}