PHILLY KILLZ

Animal control officers said the scene they found in Kensington Tuesday ranks among the worst they've ever seen.

A concerned business owner in the Kensington section of Philadelphia alerted Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals agents that three dead cats -- two beaten to death and one impaled through its mouth with a stick -- were strewn on a city sidewalk, their blood still fresh.
Two of the cats were apparently beaten to death by blunt force trauma to the head, according to PSPCA. The third cat had been impaled through the mouth with a large wooden stick and had a plastic cord tied around its neck.

The animal victims were found at F and Tioga streets.
When authorities returned to the scene Tuesday, they found another cat there, dead from blunt force trauma to the head, investigators said.
The SPCA said a serial cat killer may be on the loose in Philadelphia and it is offering a big reward.

"It's sickening to think about how these cats were tortured," said PSPCA Director of Investigations George Bengal. "We need to apprehend the person or persons responsible for these heinous acts now, before more innocent animals are harmed."

Animal control officers at the SPCA's headquarters in Hunting Park showed the wooden stick, along with some plastic cord found around a cat's neck Tuesday afternoon.