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<p>A <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/09/germany.animalwelfare">sadistic serial killer</a> has set his sights on rabbits in Germany. He decapitates them (chops off their heads) and then exsanguinates them (drains their blood).</p>

<p>Dubbed the "<strong>Rabbit Ripper</strong>" in the English tabloids ("Serienmörder von Kaninchen"), the Germans have created a five-man special task force to find the unsub.</p>

<p>His accomplice?</p>

<p>Police suspect the Rabbit Ripper is using Google Earth satellite images to find homes where pet rabbits reside. Volker Schuette, one of a special team of five officers hunting the killer, warned that many animals had been snatched from cages away from public view, <strong>suggesting the killer might be using Internet satellite images</strong> to track them down.</p>

<p>What's worse: They fear the murderer will move on to humans if he or she isn't caught soon.</p>

<p>Seriously? Jawohl. </p>

<p>Estimates of the bunny bodycount range from 30 to 40 bunnies beheaded in the towns of Written and Dortmund, in the Ruhr Valley, since last summer. </p>

<p>A taskforce of five officers has interviewed more than 300 people in the search for the killer.</p>

<p>The 'bunny murders' have alarmed owners living around the city of Dortmund who have now offered a £2000 reward to catch the killer.</p>

<p>In one case, brother and sister rabbits Fussel and Marianne were dragged from their cage, decapitated, bled dry and their bodies left for their owners to find the next morning.</p>

<p>One woman, Julia Perkun, has built a secret bunny bunker for her 13 rabbits in woodland on the edge of Witten.</p>

<p>"This place isn't visible from the street," Mrs Perkun told the BBC. "I try not to tell anyone where this place is. People know that I have rabbits, but I don't tell anyone where this place is, so I hope my rabbits are safe."</p>

<p>Police suspect there could be a satanic or occult connection to the killings. Ruhr Valley police said they feared that the assassin could be a Satanist, or Satanists, engaged in bloody, ungodly rituals.</p>

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