So, about a dozen years ago I told my friends about a Clydesdale mass murder that had happened in the 1980’s, and was ridiculed, but was eventually – partially – vindicated.
You’ll notice the vindication above doesn’t come with a newspaper citation, though. Every once in a while, when I think of Clydesdales (as one does during the SuperBowl), I go scouting the internet to see if I can find a 1980s article about the crime. I usually can’t, and I assume that’s because the Busch Family owns this town and all its newspapers.
Well, here’s an excerpt from a New York Times article from the mid 70s, four years before the one I recall:
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 9 (AP) Vandals armed with a high-powered rifle shot and killed a pregnant Clydesdale mare yesterday. The mare had produced several colts for the Anheuser-Busch Inc. brewery’s famed eight-horse hitch teams.
Veterinarians were unable to save the unborn animal that the 18-year-old mare Peggy Lyndale was carrying. Three other mares were wounded. The incident occurred on the Budweiser brewery’s Clydesdale breeding farm in St. Louis County.
See that? Years earlier, when I was in high school there had been another Clydesdale murder, and an attempted mass murder at that. And, this is pretty scary: it was done with a high-powered rifle. Watch out. Clydesdale serial murderer is still at large.