Richie Rich, pictured, discovered a gruesome secret at an Illinois pet cemetery. The owner was hoarding animal bodies in a freezer and giving owners random ashes.
An Illinois pet cemetery cruelly tricked grieving owners.
Investigators believe that Katy’s Pet Cemetery and Crematory has been giving away random ashes. People who brought their pets to be cremated were tricked into accepting the remains of another animal while their pets were dumped in a freezer.
Animal rights activist Richie Rich was searching for a lost dog near the cemetery when he stumbled upon a strange discovery.
“We were out there searching for a dog named Cosmo, a great dane,” Rich said. “When we were making our rounds, close to a pumpkin field where she was last seen… We pulled in to check for paw prints, didn’t see anything, we’re immediately met with the smell of what we thought at the time was road kill, so that’s when we decided, being the number two thing a dog needs is food, search around the building. There was a chest freezer outside, along the side of the building that, the closer we got to it, the stronger the smell.”
Lower told reporters that police might have trouble investigating the pet cemetery’s deceptions. The business owner killed himself and it’s unknown if anyone else knew his motives.
Rich volunteers with Trap and Recover Animals in Peoria (TRAP).
When investigators examined Rich’s find, they discovered a microchipped animal supposedly cremated by Katy’s. Obscuring the case even more, John Abts, the pet cemetery’s owner, committed suicide soon after the allegations became public.
“There were three animals inside it (the freezer found by Rich) that had been there for some time. In fact, that’s how the search warrant on the 21st started. One of those animals had a microchip in the animal. We were able to identify the owner and that owner received ashes,” Tazewell County Chief Deputy Jeffrey Lower said.
“Fifteen down there and ten more in another freezer and we have twelve of them. That will be sorted out. We only took possession of those that had the microchip in them and the rest of them there’s just no way for us to identify.”
Multiple animals were found decomposing in the above chest. Because at least one of the animals was micro chipped investigators learned that they decaying pets were creatures that had supposedly been cremated.
There’s no way for authorities to know what Abts was intending to do. Why was he preserving the animal’s bodies? He never killed the creatures himself, thank goodness, but it’s bizarre that he would lie to people about what happened to their pet’s remains.
“What he was doing, as far as how he was managing was not illegal, as far as the disposal process that he was going through,” Lower said. “He wasn’t doing anything wrong there. The only part that was illegal was representing ashes of an animal that was not truly that animal.”
Where did he get those ashes? Investigators may never know. Abts committed the perfect crime. If a dog hadn’t run off near his cemetery, Rich never would have made his discovery and the subsequent investigation would never have begun.
“There came a point where doing the right thing didn’t feel like doing the right thing, even though we were preventing a lot of hurt in the future. I just hate for those families to have to relive the loss of their animal and question whether they’ve got their remains of their animal,” Rich said.
John Abts, Katy’s owner, committed suicide before police could file charges.
Grieving owners may feel victimized to learn that they were given the ashes of a random animal rather than their beloved pet.
It’s unknown how many people might have been affected. Abts may have only recently begun deceiving his clients, or he may have started long ago.
“A WMBD investigation found that pet crematories are not regulated, other than when the crematory is installed; that’s when the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency is on Site. Local pet crematories we spoke with say, if you’re considering services, the best thing you can do is ask questions and ask for references, both from veterinarians and customers,” a local news source reports.
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