I guess I assumed that when I read the horses owner was a young girl, that the boy who shot the horse did it to hurt her. That she had rebuffed his attentions... I went back and re-read and it doesn't say this but I guess I want to believe there is at least a REASON to insanity...If this IS the case, she will know who it is. Even if not, I assume in these rural areas most everyone knows everyone or at least through acquaintances (and kids know kids through other kids). And at minimum, bully's love to boast about their bad deeds, He WILL blab on himself to someone and it will come out. Darn I do wish he'd get serious time. But yet HERE WE GO YET AGAIN. ANOTHER ANIMAL ABUSE CASE THAT WILL GO INTO NEXT YEAR AND WE WON'T HEAR THE END RESULT!!! THAT, to me is the frustrating part.