Dead woman's husband cleared, murderous moose suspected

Walt can't resist passing on this story, which appeared on the Net this morning...

Inspector Knut Kneckr of the Swedish police arrested Ingemar Westlund, a sexagenarian, for killing his wife. Agneta Westlund, also a sexagenarian, was found dead in a forest near the matrimonial home, after failing to return from an evening stroll.

Now the unfortunate widower has been released, after police decided the culprit was most likely a moose. Well, not a moose as we know it, but a European elk, still a rather large animal. A police spokesman Ulf Ockme said "the improbable has become probable", but declined to go into details about what might have transpired.

Expressen, a Swedish tabloid, reported that hairs and saliva from a moose were found on the victim's clothes. Police would not immediately confirm that, and declined to speculate on rumours that the elk was horny. "Those are antlers," Ockme said, "not horns".