Investigators puzzled by dumping of animal carcasses on public land
Grisly dump site near public bike trails haunts man who discovered the bodies
Families frolic in Shelby Farms Park on May 11, 2020. Not far away, near the Wolf River, someone has been dumping animal carcasses. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Someone has been dumping dead horses, cows and deer on county land not far from a public trail along the Wolf River near Shelby Farms. Investigators can’t figure out who.
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Memphis Animal Services landfill illegal dumping Shelby FarmsChristopher Fulton
Christopher Fulton is a freelance journalist living in Mountain Home, Arkansas. He is a graduate student in the Journalism Department at the University of Memphis and a former intern for the university’s Institute for Public Service Reporting.
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