BEWARE..BE INFORMED SERIES--Is anyone awake at Houston Police Department?

A friend of mine recently forwarded me a little news paper type magazine called the Houston Press. One article in particular caught my eye. It was about “cat killing” in some affluent neighborhoods in Houston that has been going on since 2009. According to John Lomax, “In many cases, the cats are shaved, skinned, and mutilated—sometimes beheaded and other times halved or quartered. The bodies are often left on display—in driveways or in one case, in the middle of a baseball diamond.”

What kind of sick sociopath is running around out there in these affluent neighborhoods? This has been going for over 3 years and just “…last week, Crime Stoppers issued a statement…” and put up a reward. I am just now hearing about this. This type of report scares me. Let me tell you why?

I had always heard (rumored) that a serial killer generally starts out mutilating animals because of their morbid curiosity to death. According to the FBI studies “Over the past twenty years, law enforcement and experts from a number of varying disciplines have attempted to identify specific motivations for serial murders and to apply those motivations to different typologies developed for classifying serial murders. These range from simple, definitive models to complex, multiple—category typologies that are laden with inclusion requirements. Most typologies are too cumbersome to be utilized by law enforcement during an active serial murder investigation and they may not be helpful in identifying an offender.” This publication also goes on to state, “Serial murder involves strangers with no visible relationship between the offender and the victim.” In other words, the rumor that I am aware of may or may not be true but it is hard to tell because of the actual statistics of the FBI in this case (the teaching and learning particulars) are not really going to be shared with the general public. But, what we do know is that the possibility of these cat killings being the fore-runner of a serial killer in theses affluent neighborhoods is 50/50.

They will not kill someone they know. I have to in my heart make this statement, if I were in the law enforcement field I would find the cat killer. The cat killer may get board and graduate to killing something larger. I would hate it to be human. In Houston, Texas, there are a lot of people who do not know each other.

FYI: I personally support HPD and they are a group of very fine group of individuals. They are just overworked and under paid (for the most part) according to the job they have to do. They have always come when I needed help and I am forever thankful to them. But sometimes, the obvious needs to be pointed out. And then again, I could be totally wrong—that is my opinion.

SOURCES CITED:
Lomax, John N. Houston Press Vol. 24 No. 9 July 19-24. ““$5K Reward Offered to End Cat Slaughter” Houston, TX. 2012.