ATLANTA — Ritualistic killings led to the discovery of decapitated goats in a southwest Atlanta neighborhood, police said.
A construction crew found what was left of the three goats behind a house on Elixir Avenue on Thursday morning.
It is believed that someone killed the goats somewhere else during a religious ritual and then illegally dumped them in the backyard of a home under construction.
Due to a city policy that prevents the removal of dead animals on private property, a local humanitarian came to the site, put the goats in bags and left the bags along a curb.
"We came up to work and we smelled something," said Joe Radford, one of the men who discovered the goats. "Somebody had a ceremony."
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