Freaky Oregon cow murders inspire award-winning film. See it in Richland

“Not One Drop of Blood,” an award-winning documentary produced by Richland journalist Anna King, will be screened at the Fairchild Cinemas Queensgate Theater.

The 7 p.m. screening on Oct. 22 also features a Q&A with King and directors Jackson Devereaux and Lachland Hinton.

The film tracks the decades-long mystery of unexplained cattle mutilations and deaths that have unsettled a ranching community in rural Oregon.

It received an award for the best documentary feature of the 2025 Local Sightings Film Festival in Seattle. It has also screened at the Florida Film Festival, the Lower East Side Film Festival and Filmfort.

It was filmed entirely in Harney County, Oregon, about six hours south of the Tri-Cities.

King first covered cattle mutilations in 2019 after hearing that ranchers in remote areas of Oregon were finding bodies of cows and bulls that had been drained of blood and mutilated. The phenomenon was investigated, but the mystery remained.

Her report for NPR drew more than a million hits.

“Coming upon one of the dead bulls is an eerie scene. The forest is hot and still, apart from a raven’s repeating caw. The bull looks like a giant, deflated plush toy. It smells. Weirdly, there are no signs of buzzards, coyotes or other scavengers. His red coat is as shiny as if he were going to the fair, but he’s bloodless and his tongue and genitals have been surgically cut out,” she wrote, describing the site of one carcass.

“Anna’s voice and perspective have been central to this project from the beginning,” said co-director Hinton. “Bringing the film to her hometown feels just as important as screening it in Harney County.”

King has long reported on rural life across the Pacific Northwest for the Northwest News Network from a studio at Washington State University Tri-Cities..

Tickets for the screening are $13.75 at fairchildcinemas.com.