Horrific HIT and RUN – 84 Innocents DEAD

A very motivated person armed with a gun and a very dented car is on the loose in Australia. The bodies of at least 84 kangaroos have turned up in Victoria Australia, all of them either killed by a speeding vehicle or mowed down by gunfire. 

Conservation regulators opened an investigation after a group of sixty-five eastern gray kangaroos, ranging in age from juvenile to adult, were located in the Gobarup region of central Victoria. Then, on June 23, a further nineteen eastern grey kangaroos were found dead near Hotham from identical injuries. Hotham is around 270 kilometers west of the original scene.

Officers in Gobarup found the kangaroo corpses distributed across a 190 hectare land are after having first received a report on the 22 of June from a local wildlife shelter, an employee of which had found several dozen of the large marsupials in their paddocks. The caregiver who found the animals had to euthanize three of them who had yet to die from their injuries, which were too severe to tend to. Two joeys (juveniles) were successfully rescued and are making a recovery at the shelter in question.

The landowner of the parcel where the animals were found has had conversations with authorities, and wildlife conservation officers do not consider him a person of interest in the crime.

The mass killings of kangaroos in both locations are suspected to have happened beginning on June 21 at 5pm, and ended at noon on the 23rd of June.

Conservation law in Victoria prohibits hunting, injuring, or destroying wildlife under any circumstances. Penalties for violating the law stack up fast, with a single offense carrying a sentence of six months in prison and a $9,000 (AUD) fine. Additional offenses carry a fine of over $98,000 and a two year prison sentence.

Authorities are asking anyone with any information that might help them solve the case of the mysterious dying kangaroos to contact Australia’s Crime Stoppers hotline.