DNA evidence nails notorious 'cat serial killer', the problem is there's more than one culprit!
Scotland Yard finally closed a long-running investigation into the infamous 'Croydon Cat Killer', an individual who was thought to have killed, dismembered and decapitated more than 400 cats since 2014 in the Croydon area of London. The spate of killings had sparked panic amongst the populace, with calls for police to find the killer reaching fever pitch after several cats were found bludgeoned to death and their dissected corpses were left in full public view.
According to the BBC, 25 post-mortem examinations carried out on the corpses of these slain cats found no evidence of "human involvement". DNA tests and CCTV footage pointed to the same conclusion. Scotland Yard has now attributed the deaths as "likely to be the result of predation or scavenging by wildlife on cats killed in vehicle collisions." The primary suspects are now foxes.