A startling discovery in a North Carolina neighborhood has prompted a lot of questions.Charlotte resident Mark Liebner told WBTV a neighbor asked him if he wanted to see something "really crazy" last week. When he accepted the offer, the two walked into a wooded area behind their subdivision. “So we were walking back there – at first it looked like a whole bunch of deer or raccoons or something,” Liebner said. “We got closer and closer, and it was just literally a pile of just dead coyotes. All piled up, had tags on them.”“It was a really gnarly sight. Smelled really bad,” Liebner added. "It was like, why would you bring a whole bunch of dead coyotes and dump them here?”Images from the scene are too graphic to share. About 70 to 80 coyote carcasses were piled in a heap on the ground next to a wet weather ditch.The two called police."I’ve never seen that amount in one place before,” said Wildlife Enforcement Officer Sampson Parker.While it is legal to kill coyotes, the proper way to dispose of them is to bring them to a landfill. Investigators believe the person who dumped the coyotes got the animals from a large hunt. "It wasn't just Mecklenburg County where this came from,” said Parker. "It looks like one individual got a hold of all these coyotes and unfortunately just made a bad decision to dispose of them not properly."Parker said his office, Emergency Management, Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Animal Care and Control and Charlotte Fire responded to the scene and collected evidence.The person who dumped the coyotes may face littering charges.

A startling discovery in a North Carolina neighborhood has prompted a lot of questions.

Charlotte resident Mark Liebner told WBTV a neighbor asked him if he wanted to see something "really crazy" last week. When he accepted the offer, the two walked into a wooded area behind their subdivision.


“So we were walking back there – at first it looked like a whole bunch of deer or raccoons or something,” Liebner said. “We got closer and closer, and it was just literally a pile of just dead coyotes. All piled up, had tags on them.”

“It was a really gnarly sight. Smelled really bad,” Liebner added. "It was like, why would you bring a whole bunch of dead coyotes and dump them here?”

Images from the scene are too graphic to share. About 70 to 80 coyote carcasses were piled in a heap on the ground next to a wet weather ditch.

The two called police.

"I’ve never seen that amount in one place before,” said Wildlife Enforcement Officer Sampson Parker.

While it is legal to kill coyotes, the proper way to dispose of them is to bring them to a landfill.

Investigators believe the person who dumped the coyotes got the animals from a large hunt.

"It wasn't just Mecklenburg County where this came from,” said Parker. "It looks like one individual got a hold of all these coyotes and unfortunately just made a bad decision to dispose of them not properly."

Parker said his office, Emergency Management, Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Animal Care and Control and Charlotte Fire responded to the scene and collected evidence.

The person who dumped the coyotes may face littering charges.