About weird occurrences: In March, West Virginia suffered through a rash of unexplained disappearances and cattle mutilations during several weeks, with nine people disappearing over two weeks. The locals to explain the crimes used theories ranging from serial killers to satanic cults to UFOs.

About serial killers: A local from Tucumseh named Mack Tooley was suspect on the murder of a person whose bloodless and partly cannibalized corpse was found wrapped in trash bags and hanging from a tree, since Tooley had been the last person to be seen with the victim. When the local police arrived to arrest him, Tooley shot himself in the head with a Colt .45 automatic. Dr. Brenton Clark, who performed the autopsy on Tooley, found traces of human blood and tissue on his digestive track.