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Houston police are asking local butcher shops to keep an eye out for meat stolen from multiple slaughtered horses in Pearland.Department spokesman Victor Senties issued the warning Thursday during a news conference. and are thought to have been killed for their meat.One of those horses belonged to Jodi and Jason Bockel, whose 10-year-old horse Goldie was found dead in late May. Their son found Goldie with a stab wound in the heart and her backstraps and hindquarters missing, Jodi Bockel said.“You could tell they knew what they were doing,” she said of the assailants, who remain at large.“We miss her,” she added. “She was a great horse.”Most of the horse killings were clustered along Hooper Road near the Sam Houston Tollway. Another killing was reported in the 14100 block of Wayside Drive.Pearland police spokesman Jason Wells previously told the Houston Chronicle that the culprit made precise cuts and removed the meat “with care.”Richard “Kudo” Couto founded the Animal Recovery Mission and ARM Sanctuary and also works undercover to catch horse killers. He has spent more than a decade working on the issue in Florida. In a recent interview with the Chronicle, he guessed that between 30,000 and 40,000 horses a year are funneled through the state’s black market meat trade.More for youGenerally, the horses are stabbed in the heart rather than shot so as not to awake owners and neighbors, which means horses can take up to 20 minutes to die. But that also suggests the horses are still alive while they’re butchered, Couto explained.Once the highly valuable meat is cut off, it is often sold for medicinal and “magical” purposes — as a cure for disease or even for libido problems, he said.Currie Engel contributed to this report.julian.gill@chron.com

Houston police are asking local butcher shops to keep an eye out for meat stolen from multiple slaughtered horses in Pearland.Department spokesman Victor Senties issued the warning Thursday during a news conference. and are thought to have been killed for their meat.One of those horses belonged to Jodi and Jason Bockel, whose 10-year-old horse Goldie was found dead in late May. Their son found Goldie with a stab wound in the heart and her backstraps and hindquarters missing, Jodi Bockel said.“You could tell they knew what they were doing,” she said of the assailants, who remain at large.“We...

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