I think you posted in the wrong thread ;)

So I did. Darn it. Sorry. Too lazy to move it, though.

In the past couple of weeks we encountered a deer skeleton, a rotting raccoon,
and a dog/coyote newly dead.
The deer we think was hunted because the head was missing, even though it was a nature area
where hunting is supposedly prohibited.

A wild animal like a coyote could have ripped the head off. Or, even if its death was from another aninal, someone finding it could gave taken the head.

I like to hope for the good in others when I hear a story.....