LONDON – The fiend was dubbed the “Croydon Cat Killer.” It had a nice ring. At the peak of the hysteria over the Croydon Cat Killer – named for south London suburb seen as a kind of ground zero for a cluster of serial killings – the police revealed their hotlines were ringing off the hook. So did the respectable BBC, which published a credulous report on the life and death of Scooter, alongside other departed pets. “The cat killer stalking suburbia,” was the headline. “In three instances where CCTV was obtained, footage showed foxes carrying bodies or body-parts of cats,” police said.

Source: National Post September 21, 2018 03:33 UTC