We have covered human mutilation before (although a link to cattle mutilation  remains unclear, as do possible causes) and looked at its influence on Whitley Strieber's The Nye Incidents (about which I still owe you a review/overview). Now Joseph Capp from UFO Media Matters has posted about a talk at the PA MUFON meeting, which focuses on the Todd Sees case:

A friend of mine last year had asked me to do some reading on "Human Mutilations" he mentioned a case in South America. I had already read about the case and had drawn my own conclusions. I told him I believed it was copy cat murder. Some maniac had read about cattle mutilations and copied it trying to throw the police off.

Then enters Butch Witkoski a homicide detective with 27 years experience. When he spoke on stage that day at PA MUFON about "human mutilations" and how inexplicable the forensics around these case tuned out to be, I listened intently. As much as the topic doesn't make sense it still scared me.

Here is the video of his talk:

So how does this case stack up? It is certainly unpleasant but, the presentation was problematic. The quoting of the statistics at the beginning is a little sensationalist, "X number of people abducted [pause] or missing," and has no actual connection to this case, where Todd Sees is clearly not missing (in some ways it reminds me of the "argument by juxtaposition" claims made by ads for probiotic yoghurt, shampoo and beauty products were they make a number of "true" but unconnected statements and let the viewer fill in the gaps to prove that product A will actually address problem B) Equally, his conclusions on the case are at least partly based on the "argument from disbelief" (I don't believe he died that way, etc.) but without any evidence, or even a theory which we could test future evidence against, it is only his belief. The sandwich is finished off with a couple of cases of human mutilation which underline the fact that there is no clear link to either human or cattle mutilation, because Todd Sees wasn't actually mutilated (or if you want to count the burn, then he wasn't mutilated in the pattern commonly described). There does seem to be something fishy going on (at least according to the way this is commonly described in the Ufological community) but there is little proof that it is a cover-up of a "human mutilation" case - it will be interesting to see what the files on the case reveal if/when they are finally extracted from the authorities.

So what is behind the human mutilations? Well let's take a look at this which do initially appear to be actual classic human mutilation reports. The one with Sgt Lovette is eye-opening but sourcing it seems tricky - it is case 24 on the 1956 Humanoid Sighting Reports, which says "This is supposed to be from the officially “unpublished” Project Grudge report # 2," which all sounds pretty shaky and suspicious - if this isn't just pure fantasy it sounds like someone may have leaked story straight out of pulp sci-fi for their own purposes (perhaps even as disinformation to discredit cattle mutilation research). The Guarapiranga Reservoir body is at least [warning nasty pictures ahead] well-documented, although it is less obviously linked to aliens - the autopsy lists the cause of death as torture (and not with space gizmos either), which seems the most likely answer there is a discussion on this case on ATS where some suggest animals).

So there are any number of theories that could be put forward, at least for cases where we know something happened, even though one size may not fit all. Capp's idea of a serial killing copycat is an interesting one and I discussed other possibilities (occult murders are not unknown in Brazil after all, along with violent gangs). We only need look at what the Nazis and Unit 731 did during WWII to know that people can do horrific "medical" things to other humans. So, even if we can't glean the motivation(s) here, it doesn't mean we should jump to the alien answer. Personally, I find the human theory far more frightening and disturbing than the idea it might be extraterrestrials, at least until a bunch of little grey sadists turn up in my bedroom tonight to teach me a lesson for doubting them.

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