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Attachmate CEO turns self in for bison murder

Jackson West · 05/22/08 10:40AM

Jeffrey Hawn, the founder and CEO of Seattle-based business-software company Attachmate, turned himself into authorities, charged with animal cruelty, theft and criminal mischief. Hawn and hired hands shot and killed 31 or 32 bison, the majestic symbol of Americana, which had wandered onto his property from a neighboring ranch in Park County, Colorado — including cows carrying calfs, and scattered across hundreds of acres, some owned not by Hawn but the Bureau of Land Management. What's really shocking, though?