Headless Goats In Farmingdale: $3K Reward For Info Leading To Arrest

FARMINGDALE, NY — The reward is now $3,000 for information that leads to the arrest(s) and conviction of the person or people who left the remains of two decapitated goats in black plastic bags behind a Burger King in Farmingdale on June 29, the Suffolk County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said.

Two goats were killed and beheaded in "what appears to be a satanistic ritual," the Suffolk SPCA said.

The New York State Humane Association is adding $1,000 to the reward offered by the Suffolk County SPCA, the SPCA announced Thursday.

Suffolk police called the SPCA to the burger chain, at 96 Broadhollow Road, after the "grisly find," the SPCA said. SPCA detectives called it a "ritualistic sacrifice." Other items to suggest a ritual were found with the goats, said Roy Gross, chief of the Suffolk SPCA.

The SPCA called it a "barbaric act of animal cruelty for unjustifiably harming, mutilating or killing an animal. All too many times these gruesome finds are discovered not only by adults but occasionally by children. These acts of violence must stop now!"