At least 30 pet rabbits beheaded by mystery killer

POLICE in two towns in the Ruhr Valley of Germany are looking for someone who has killed and mutilated at least 30 pet rabbits.

Owners in Witten and Dortmund have found their rabbits headless with the blood drained out, the BBC reports.

The killings began about a year ago.

Investigators say that the rabbit killer may be using online satellite images to find the rabbits, looking for houses with rabbit hutches in the yards. Most of the killings have involved rabbits on private property not visible from the street, said the BBC.

Elfriede Dumont said that she went out one morning and found the door of her rabbit hutch open. One rabbit’s carcass was inside without his head, while another carcass had been thrown into the bushes.

“It’s always the same,” Officer Volker Schuette told the BBC.

“Detectives find the rabbit lying dead in a hutch. An unknown person has cut off the head and drained off the blood in a box or a bottle. So we find no blood and no head.”