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The village of Horton is nestled on the edge of the rolling hillsides and grassy meadows that define the Kotswolds in southwest England.

In 1984, Horton was home to about 250 residents.

Most of them were farming families like the backhouses, the owner-operators of a dairy farm called

Witten Hill.

43 year old patriarch Graham Backhouse lived at the property with his wife and two young

children.

He worked on the farm full-time with the assistance of several farmhands and herdsmen.

At 300 acres, Witten Hill Farm was a decent size for a non-industrial operation.

To walk the entirety of the farm's perimeter took at least 45 minutes.

On Tuesday, April 3, 1984, one of the farmhands was conducting an inspection of Wittenhill's fence

line when he came across a disturbing site.

Impaled on a fence post was a freshly decapitated sheep's head.

Pinned beneath it was a handwritten note containing two words.

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