Londoners Boudicca Rising and Tony Jenkins run a small rescue centre called South Norwood Animal Rescue and Liberty — SNARL. In late 2015, their lives changed forever; in the past eighteen months they have led a criminal investigation into an animal killer and recovered the bodies of 260 murdered cats.
The bodies are mutilated; limbs and tails are removed, and the victims are decapitated. Many body parts are never found, possibly being kept as trophies by the killer. Commonly, the bodies are then displayed; laid out where they will be easily found. The individual responsible is known as the UK Animal Killer. Formerly, he was dubbed the Croydon Cat Killer, as the killings were taking place in that South London borough, but he has since expanded throughout most of England. And yes, ‘individual’ and ‘he’ are correct according to expert police profiling.