In eight hours, Dr. Melinda Merck turned a year-long search for a sociopath into a training lesson for B.C. animal cruelty investigators.
Predators, not humans, were responsible for the mutilated remains of cats and other animals found in Maple Ridge and neighbouring communities.
The SPCA is enlisting the help of an American animal crime scene expert and is considering use of tracking dogs to hunt down the person/s responsible for a series of cat mutilations in Maple Ridge, as concern grows that the perpetrator could be "warming up" to killing humans.