As dawn broke, however, there was agitation throughout the county as word quickly spread of the discovery of a trail of hoof prints (some say cloven), two inches wide and about eight inches apart in the snow stretched in a more-or-less straight line for over a hundred miles.
The rampage began before dawn Tuesday at the home in Ladera Ranch, a wealthy Orange County suburb about 50 miles south of Los Angeles, and ended 25 miles to the north during the early morning rush hour.