Yesterday, police began searching the wooded area surrounding the Alexander Holt home, looking for whoever or whatever vandalized the house early yesterday morning.

"We're looking for any signs of the intruder, be they vandals or animals," said Sheriff Cook yesterday in the second of two press conferences. "Evidence strongly suggests an animal or animals, large in size and probably canine."

Cook bases that assumption on the description of two officers who were watching the Holt residence when the disturbance occurred.

"Maybe a large dog..." said Michael Neil. "It moved faster than any animal I've seen."

No tracks, animal or otherwise, were found outside the house.

After damaging three rooms in the house, the animal broke a window and escaped into the woods. There were no signs of forced entry, and police still have no idea how it gained access to the tightly locked home. Yesterday, Cook speculated that the animal may have been a pet that had hidden from officers during a thorough search of the premises following Holt's arrest.

On a related note, the Henry County coroner Janice Wiltz hand-delivered the results of Bonnie Hand's autopsy to the Henry County sheriff's office late this morning. Ms. Wiltz would not speak to reporters, saying that the police had asked the coroner's office to keep their finding secrets until after the investigation into the Holt killings was complete.

Alexander Holt was taken into custody this past Friday on suspicion of murder and kidnapping of five Georgia women. The dismembered and cannibalized remains of Bonnie Hand were found in Holt's basement, along with items belonging to Angela Stilton, Saretta Lewis, Jamie Anderson, and Henrietta Bolsom. Each woman had been reported missing in Macon, GA earlier this year. Holt hung himself while in police custody, leaving authorities and neighbors with nothing but questions and a grizzly crime scene. Henry County Sheriff Robert Cook speculated that the sixty-seven year old Holt may have needed had an accomplice to commit the kidnappings, but now it appears that that accomplice may not be human, and may still be at large.