Editing Cattle mutilation (section)

===1975 Colorado===
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In 1975, the Colorado Associated Press voted the mutilations as the state's top story.<ref name="the-enduring-panic-about-cow-mutilations">{{cite magazine | url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/the-enduring-panic-about-cow-mutilations | title=The Enduring Panic About Cow Mutilations | magazine=The New Yorker | date=8 May 2023 | last1=Monroe | first1=Rachel }}</ref><ref name="Goleman"/>
Senator [[Floyd K. Haskell]] contacted the [[FBI]] asking for help in 1975 due to public concern regarding the issue. He claimed there had been 130 mutilations in Colorado alone, and further reports across nine states.<ref name="fbi1">[http://vault.fbi.gov/Animal%20Mutilation/Animal%20Mutilation%20Part%201%20of%205/view Operation Cattle Mutilation, Section 1], FBI, Released under FOIA</ref> A 1979 FBI report indicated that, according to investigations by the [[New Mexico State Police]], there had been an estimated 8,000 mutilations in Colorado, causing approximately $1 million in damages.<ref name="fbi4">[http://vault.fbi.gov/Animal%20Mutilation/Animal%20Mutilation%20Part%204%20of%205/view Operation Cattle Mutilation, Section 4] FBI report on cattle mutilations</ref>

In January 1975, the Michigan ATF tasked Donald E. Flickinger with investigating the mutilations;  Flickinger investigated possible links to a "Hell-oriented biker gang".<ref name="Goleman">{{cite journal | url=https://doi.org/10.3098/ah.2011.85.3.398 | doi=10.3098/ah.2011.85.3.398 | title=Wave of Mutilation: The Cattle Mutilation Phenomenon of the 1970s | date=2011 | last1=Goleman | first1=Michael J. | journal=Agricultural History | volume=85 | issue=3 | pages=398–417 | pmid=21901905 | url-access=subscription }}</ref>  In May 1975, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation opened an investigation under the leadership of Carl Whiteside.<ref name="Goleman"/>

In October 1975,  the New York Times published a story examining cattle mutilations across 11 states.<ref>{{cite news |last=Lichtensteev |first=Grace |date=1975-10-30 |title=11 States Baffled by Mutilation of Cattle |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/10/30/archives/11-states-baffled-by-mutilation-of-cattle.html |url-access=subscription |page=77 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref><ref>Specifically: Pennsylvania, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Texas, Oklahoma, Montana, Illinois, Wisconsin and California.</ref>