Sulphur Springs, TX | A Texas meat packing plant is under investigation by local authorities as one of their employees is suspected of murdering a tragic 71 coworkers during his 17 years at the slaughterhouse, reports the Dallas Telegraph this morning.
Jeremiah Burroughs, age 57, has been formally accused of the murder of no less than 70 coworkers after the disappearance of 71 coworkers since 1998 had raised local authorities suspicions.
The discovery this week of human bones in a neighboring rendering plant which recycles slaughterhouse byproducts had raised the alarm and forced local authorities to crack down on potential suspects.
During 17 years, Jeremiah Burroughs is suspected of murdering a tragic 71 coworkers in the meat packing plant where he worked for over 22 years
Jeremiah Burroughs, who is a Gulf war veteran, is suspected of suffering from PTSD syndrome and of extreme paranoia, explains police officer Emet Rubbens.
“We have no idea why he committed these atrocious crimes, there seems to lack a motive. What is most distressing is how he got away with these atrocious crimes for such a long period of time. It seems he just processed his victims meat as he would’ve done with any other cow. His victims all disappeared somewhere in the meat packing process” he expressed with disgust.
“Just another guy”
“He was just a normal guy, like anybody else” admits coworker Adam Willfur. “I admit it’s strange he still lived alone with his mother, but he seemed to really enjoy his work. He’d rip off the skin of a carcass in a matter of seconds and would chop off its limbs in a flash. Whatever he did, he was a heck of a good worker, that’s all I’ve got to say about him” admitted another.
“It’s not an easy job, so we’re used to seeing people come in a few days and quit without notice” explains the meat packing plant manager, Alan Longspan. “Never did we realize that they had been murdered and processed as food” he told reporters, still visibly under shock.
Under current state law and if convicted, Burroughs could be sentenced to the capital punishment by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), believe experts.
Don't you just love how the media likes to paint the villian as the victim? "Jeremiah Burroughs, who is a Gulf war veteran, is suspected of suffering from PTSD syndrome and of extreme paranoia" Oh yoah, not his fault. We should probably be analyzing what happened to him in Gulf War that lead him to this.
71 "COWORKERS". This has bad police work written all over it. It took them 17 years to pin point that 71 missing people worked for the same company. Thats roughly 4 people a year.
Well I don't know if this is a hoax or not. Lets hope it is however, I would like to put in my two cents concerning news media bias. Note, that the press had to say "Slaughterhouse Employee." Note, they had to say that the entire meat packing plant in the town of XYZ is under investigation, and also note that they have the suspects name! So why not just say that John Doe is accused of murdering 71 people! Why give the meat packing plant and the town a "black eye" before any or all the facts have been made public?
Ok maybe the media feels that a person working in a slaughter plant is more susceptible of becoming a serial killer because nothing but killing takes place in a slaughter house and this has dire effects on employees working in them. Heck, maybe I am susceptible! After all I spent the last 25 years working in and around them.
I am not trying to make light of such a serious potential crime but. We must wait until more facts come out and all we can do as meat cutters is hope and pray that if this man is guilty he didn't use a clever, meat hook or boning knife. Because we don't have a NRA behind us!
Just for the record and because I was a former employee of the meat processing industry I made a list of all the killings done by "postal workers" since 1975. And every killing was done with a gun!