Thoroughbred Mare Stolen in Dead of Night in Pennsylvania is Still Missing

It was unusually windy on Wednesday night, September 8th, so Tracy Twarkusky didn't think much of it when she thought she saw the motion lights come on around 8:00pm, out by the barn within 200 yards of her home.  She thought the vibration of the wind gusts was responsible, but still, something seemed vaguely amiss, so she pulled out a pair of binoculars to see if they would reveal something out of the ordinary.  They didn't.

Tracy reasoned that her two dogs would bark if anyone had approached her 23-acre farm in rural Columbia Cross Roads, Pennsylvania, but the dogs hadn't made a peep.  She could still see the lights outside the barn of the 80-acre farm next door, which housed several thoroughbreds, including an imposing eight-year-old thoroughbred mare, Hero's Home, and her three-month-old colt, "Little Man."  But she never heard a sound.

The next morning, as she rushed to bring her daughter to the school bus, Tracy thought it odd that Little Man was standing alone by the fence outside the barn, whinnying as if to tell her something was wrong.  Hero's Home was nowhere in sight, but Tracy hastily thought she might just be resting in her run-in stall.  But when she returned.  Tracy's heart sank.  The big, 17.2 bay dark bay mare wasn't in her stall.  She was gone.  Only her halter and lead rope remained.

And now, more than a week after her unexplained disappearance in the middle of the night, there is only one conclusion to be drawn:  Hero's Home was stolen.

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