The goat head may have been hanging from the tree for two weeks or more, police said.
WESTFIELD – Police continue to puzzle over the discovery, late last week, of a severed goat head found tucked inside a plastic bag hanging from a small tree on Neck Road.
“It was put in a bag and the horns were sticking out,” said detective Susan Figy.
Although a fellow officer spotted the white trash bag hanging in the tree about two weeks ago, it’s grisly contents were not readily discernible to passers by until the bag deteriorated a bit, Figy said.
The goat head was hanging near a utility pole, a short distance away from a Neck Road residence, Figy said.
Detective Sgt. Raymond Manos told the The Westfield News that he believes the head was just left there and that it did not have any connection to the occult.
Figy said that the rest of the goat has yet to be found and that the case has been referred to the city’s animal control officer.