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Rescued Cows Killed With Crossbow Are Still Waiting for Justice

Rescued Cows Killed With Crossbow Are Still Waiting for Justice

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Theodore and Isadora, two Holstein cows who were rescued from a slaughterhouse and lived as companions in Richmond, Maine, were brutally killed when someone trespassed on their property and shot them each with an arrow using a bow at close range. Despite knowing who is responsible for this brutal and heartbreaking crime, the police and district attorney have failed to act.

For 10 years, twins Theodore and Isadora were inseparable and lived peacefully at this location in Sagadahoc County with their guardian Daria Goggins who had rescued them, until they were brutally killed in 2015.

Tragically, one afternoon in November she found the padlock to a gate on their pasture had been cut off, and the twins had been chased out to the tree line where they were each shot in the chest at close range with a crossbow.

Isadora's body was found in a pool of blood, and Theodore's body was about 50 feet away from her.

Because the property was remote, and the lock had clearly been intentionally cut off, Goggins suspected it was someone who was familiar with the property, and that it was an act of revenge. She suspected a contractor whom she had dismissed from his job a month earlier and one of his sons, but when questioned by the Richmond Police Department, he didn't confess.

However, his alibi for the date didn't check out, and the contractor's son's then-girlfriend came forward as a witness in 2018 to inform the police that he had confessed his involvement to her, and formally testified to this at a separate hearing. The case was handed to the Sagadahoc County District Attorney's office and assigned to Assistant District Attorney A.J. Chalifour.

Unfortunately, as is the response to many cruelty cases involving animals, the District Attorney's office declined to take action, citing more important cases, claiming the witness had “an axe to grind” and offering numerous invalid excuses for failing to get justice for Theodore and Isadora.

Goggins, who is an attorney herself, has been working for years to see the legal system take this case seriously, but the statute of limitations for this crime will expire this November.

In Defense of Animals

District Attorney Natasha Irving, who was elected to represent four counties including Waldo, Knox, Lincoln, and Sagadahoc counties poorly handled the case of the porcupines who were beaten to death by former police officers in Rockland, Maine in Knox County had previously agreed to pursue this, but never did.

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