A Sicko That Was Dumping Dead Animals Onto Other People’s Graves Has Been Caught…

A farmer in Arkansas was arrested after being accused of defacing the grave of his former neighbor and longtime nemesis with animal carcasses.

After finding several dead animals on his grave, Fred Allen McKinney’s family got permission to set up surveillance cameras around the cemetery.

When they reviewed the footage, they were stunned to see Joseph Alan Stroud, 79, dressed in a woman’s coat and wearing a wig, walking up to the grave and draping a dead animal over the late McKinney’s headstone.

Shannon Nobles, McKinney’s granddaughter, explained that her family began finding dead animals on the grave in May 2020. At first, they had speculated that the animals had been poisoned by floral tributes left on the grave.

But over the course of a few months, the family had removed a total of 16 dead animals from their grandfather’s gravesite – including one placed on top of the gravestone and leaving a brownish stain on it.

McKinney lived on the farm next to Stroud until his death at age 94 in 2015. McKinney’s granddaughter confirmed that the two rivals “never got along with each other.”

Stroud was arrested and charged with defacing objects of public respect, a Class B felony, and was later released. He has denied any involvement. He avoided jail time and was given a one-year suspended sentence. He was also ordered to pay the victim’s family $2,529.

Stroud suffers from vascular dementia, according to his legal team. While in court, Stroud said that he has been leaving the dead animal carcasses on the other farmer’s tombstone because McKinney “enjoyed animals” in life.

“I done it on his behalf to show him the animals were still here and everything like that,” he told Benton County Circuit Judge Robin Green, according to Arkansas Online. “He just enjoyed animals and that there was more of a… a beauty than flowers and stuff.”

According to AWM:

Stroud also said he dressed as a woman to disguise himself. He wanted to “agitate” and “upset” the people he feared were “following me around.”

When dressing as a woman, Stroud said it was an ideal way for him to escape notice from his paranoid delusions.

“It was to agitate the people looking at me and following me around. I done it to upset them because my car was there and my license tag was there, and they knew it was me,” he told the court.

When Stroud was arrested for defacing his rival’s grave, police found bloodstains in the back of his Dodge truck.

Sources: AWM, ArkansasOnline