Brenton Marckese knows it was desperate, the way he tried to block trash trucks from entering a Delaware landfill that December morning. But somewhere inside were the remains of his beloved Clydesdale.
He had been riding the horse, named Michigan’s Breeze, 36 hours earlier when both were struck in a hit-and-run on a rural road. Marckese was hospitalized; Breeze euthanized and dumped in the state-run landfill without his knowledge.
No one would’ve allowed human remains to be treated that way, he reasoned. His 9-year-old mare deserved the same respect. “In my eyes, she was murdered,” he says.
Rebuffed at the ...