Red Snow Incident

The Red Snow Incident refers to a series of murders of a gang of teenagers that occurred in late 2016. The name of the incident originated when an officer, the first officer to discover the dead bodies, said that there had been a trail of dry blood on the snow that was left about days before the discovery occurred.

Details of the incident were not given until later that one of the bodies were beaten, tortured, and devoured, or according to the police, he was cannibalized. In a later investigation, the police followed the trail of blood, leading them to a woodshed where a lumberjack apparently resides and falsely arrested for the murder of the teens.

By the time the video of his arrest was posted online, the lumberjack's family issued a defamation lawsuit while protestors demanded that the police be defunded. The family eventually won the lawsuit against the Ravenwood Police Department.