Massachusetts police have apprehended two suspects they say placed the severed heads of at least three rabbits in mailboxes, the Associated Press has learned.
The severed heads were discovered by a postal worker during his route in Westfield on Monday. Police say that two men, a 24-year-old from Springfield and a 26-year-old from Chicopee, placed the rabbit heads in three mailboxes over the Easter weekend. The two men, whose names have not been released, deliver newspapers in the Westfield area, the AP reported. The suspects are to be charged.
A postal worker found two rabbit heads in mailboxes that belong to two Westfield sisters. The postal worker told the sisters about the heads, which were said to be dark brown in color, the New York Daily News reported. The rabbits were later buried.
Local police were baffled as to why the sisters, who live less than a mile apart from each other, were targeted.
"They're nice people," Westfield Detective Brian Freeman told the newspaper. "There's no family issues whatsoever, they're big into church, they don't have any enemies and they don't get into trouble."
But the horridness did not stop there as another rabbit head was discovered in a woman's mailbox several miles away. The woman, who has no connection to the sisters, came forward after she read about the other severed heads in a newspaper, the Daily News reported.
The alleged culprits told police they put the heads of five rabbits in mailboxes at random on Easter Sunday as part of a joke, the AP reported. The rabbits were apparently wild and were already dead when they found them on their route last week. The suspects were the ones who cut the heads off.
So far only three people have come forward about finding rabbit heads, the AP reported.
