- When Adam Comer's children ran screaming into their house
in Ferguson on Tuesday night, it didn't take him long to see why.
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- There were 13 eyeballs staring back from the rear yard.
Just eyeballs.
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- Puzzled police gathered the grisly find in plastic bags
and shipped them off to St. Louis County Medical Examiner Mary Case, who
offered relief with the news they weren't human.
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- But forensic science went no further to explain how the
eyeballs - apparently from cows - ended up in the Comer's yard and three
others along Elkins and Trask drives, where Ferguson meets Dellwood.
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- "They looked like meat," said Comer, who described
how he nudged one with his foot. "I couldn't believe it was an eyeball."
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- Comer said he called over a neighbor who was outside
barbecuing. The man, an avid hunter, had no explanation either. That's
when Comer called Ferguson police.
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- Officers with rubber gloves collected 18 eyeballs in
all, and left a few behind.
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- "I had to pick them up and throw them away,"
Comer said.
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- The experience scared his children and left Comer distressed
about who left the remains in his yard.
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- "That's the freaky part," Comer said. "I
don't have any idea where they came from."
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- Ferguson and Dellwood police continue to investigate.
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- Reporter Heather Ratcliffe: hratcliffe@post-dispatch.com
Phone: 314-863-2821
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- http://home.post-dispatch.com/channel/pdw
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- Comment
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- From Dan Pratte
5-23-2
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- I am an avid reader of your website, and have never sent
anything in before. I am from St. Louis and there is a strange article
in our local paper today about some families who found 18 cow eyeballs
in their yards. This is not a farming area. This is a highly-residential
area just outside the City of St. Louis, so, the findings are very out
of place. There is no explanation of how or why, but I find it interesting
with all the stories about cattle mutilations that these would just show
up in some yards.
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