On a personal note, I do know what she is going through. Beloved animals dying of natural causes is hard enough, but your pet murdered. That's even harder.
My sister's Dalmatian was murdered by our neighbor with antifreeze. but another neighbor who I refer to as the Crazy Cat lady. She has like 50+ cats. He had told her he was going to do something and she never warned us. See Bandit was young and rambunctious. He was only a year old when he was murdered. We called the cops, but nothing could be proven. The guy even dug up Bandit's grave to make sure he was indeed dead. He got away with, but a year later on the date that Bandit died, he went to jail on multiple charges of a different sort.
These are two different places, by the way. When we first moved there was this solid black cat, whom eventually disappeared and then my black cat disappeared a few months later. I question two neighbors and I felt only one was telling the truth. The guy the with kids, I felt he was lying. Socks was never found and I believe the guy the with kids, murdered my cat and then took another of my cats. My fuzzy orange kitty Ricky. I'm one of those people that recognize you animals voice and I heard him and Socks on his property. But lets be honest he would have lied if he was confronted and he did lie the first time. So every time he was outside, we were outside discussing loudly the disappearance of Ricky and Socks and ways we would hurt the guy. Two days go by and we knew that he knew that we knew it was him and he wasn't about to confess. We had walked up the road and forgot lock the door. So he sneaked the cat into the house. Really? He's been the house for two days? How dumb did he think we were? OK, here's why I believe that Socks was murdered. What he did to Ricky. The guy shave in in to different spots, his right front paw was swollen, in those shaved spots looked like needle marks (he injected Ricky with something), he was so terrified of us like we were gonna hurt him, and his stomach was growling. I've been around animals since I was baby and I've never heard an animal's stomach growl.
We didn't have a lot of money for an immediate vet care, so we watched him closely and he was already terrified of us, so we didn't want to scare him anymore than he already was. Luckily Ricky survived the trauma. He won't let anyone touch him. Most people don't realize that I have him 'cause he runs and hides every time someone comes.
Unfortunately the guy did get away with murder and torture. He did have a run in with cops, divorce, and I think he's not allowed to see their son. Was it it fate? I like to think so.
But also to add, my cats weren't the only ones to have disappeared in the area. A Yorki also went missing. I think them and two other families on that road were innocent 'cause even after he left cats still went missing. I think everyone else is involved with the disappearance of cats. The people with the missing Yorki left long 'fore we did. The other two are still there....I think. I hope they left, 'cause they had cats.
UPDATE: A neighbor murdered Mozart 'cause he kept coming onto his property and attacking his dogs, but Hayek says that Mozart was loving, loyal, and stayed on the property, but the guy claims otherwise. I don't know her half, 'cause she has yet to comment. Mozart is a German Shepard mix. Maybe Mozart was just rough housing with the guys dogs? But if Mozart had a different side that Salma didn't know, the neighbor should have went to Salma or one of her help instead of taking it in his own hands. The police took his side so no charges will be made, but Mozart was found dead on Salma's property. The question is; was he shot on her property? He also added that Mozart got into his trash. So the neighbor left the trash as was when questioned by the cops about the murder of Mozart? But he also has dogs. How do the cops know that his own dogs was not the ones that got into his trash? I grew up on a farm and Salma own's a ranch. Now I don't know his property, its not mentioned, They do tend to have more animals than the normal household. If you can't understand or deal with then you need to move 'cause the rachers and farmers aren't gonna get rid of their animals and ticking off a cowboy is the LAST thing you wanna do. Its the last thing you'll ever do. Messing with his/hers family or animals. I may be wrong, but I so think he lied.