It’s Stephen King’s ‘Pet Sematary’ in reverse: A woman brought live cats in crates deep into the woods, leaving them to starve in a big pile.

Now police in Butler County, Pa., want the woman, identified as Tamara Rusz, to pay for her alleged animal cruelty, charging her with 21 felony counts, as the Butler Eagle newspaper reports.

The only problem is the suspect in the case has all but disappeared.

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District Judge Sue Haggerty has issued a bench warrant for Rusz, but the woman has no known address, the Butler Eagle reports, adding:

Rusz is accused of leaving 21 cats in carriers and bins to starve and die in the Winfield Township woods – a property owned by her mother, Marilyn King.

Janice Lawniczak, Butler County's humane police officer, investigated the terrible scene, finding mainly skeletal remains of the starved cats still in carriers, bins and garbage bags containing more bins.

All of the animals had been brought there alive, then left to starve in the cages deep in the woods.

It’s the opposite of Stephen King’s horror novel and movie ‘Pet Sematary’ in which animal lovers take their dead pets to a supernatural, wooded burial ground where the deceased dogs and cats mysteriously “come back.”

Janice Lawniczak, Butler County's humane police officer, is pictured investigating the case and gathering the forensic evidence.

Lawniczak told the newspaper that investigating the case and gathering the forensic evidence was “the worst thing I've ever done.”

As a result, Lawniczak pushed for the 21 felony counts of aggravated animal cruelty causing serious bodily injury or death.

This, after Lawniczak said Rusz had done something similar last year, but did not face felony counts in that case.

But to bring the woman to justice, police first must locate her.

Lawniczak is asking anyone who sees or knows the whereabouts of Tamara Rusz, whose last known address was a post office box in Mars, Pa., to call 911.

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