[One of the first wolves I ever saw in the lower 48 was in the Grant Tetons, near Jackson Hole, long before wolf hunting was allowed. Now, any ya-hoo a-hole who wants to can kill as many wolves as they want, any time they want—across 85% of Wyoming.
Note: Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks take up nearly 15% of the cowboy state.]
Bill Addeo swears he didn’t park an SUV with a dead wolf strapped to the roof on the Town Square just for the attention.
Addeo sat on a bench next to his Ford Excursion across the street from the Cowboy bar Thursday afternoon, eager to answer questions posed by folks passing by.
“It’s a neck shot,” Addeo said. “The bottom of the neck is blown apart and there’s blood everywhere, so I didn’t want to put him in the back.”
The Hoback Junction resident killed the wolf, a black 85-pound female, that morning while elk hunting near Bondurant.
Addeo said he toted the still-warm canine to Jackson to register it at the Wyoming Game and Fish office on North Cache Street. He parked it on the Town Square, he said, while his wife was shopping.
At the time Addeo shot the wolf, she and four packmates were sitting around “satiated” after having eaten an antelope, he said.
“We saw them from about one mile away,” Addeo said. “Then we crawled to 375 yards.”
His guide, Sammy L. Coutts, had forgotten shooting sticks to rest a rifle on for a shot, so the duo needed to improvise, Addeo said.
“He kneeled down and I put it right on his shoulder,” Addeo said. “It blew the hat right off his head.”
Coutts called the Jackson Hole News&Guide on Thursday afternoon to alert the newspaper to his client’s position on the Square.
The day before, Coutts had a shot at the wolves, Addeo said, but the hunting guide’s rifle didn’t prove steady enough.
“Yesterday, Sam saw the big one at about 250 yards,” Addeo said. “He gets on the hood of his truck and misses twice.”
Coutts stewed all night.
Back on the Square, almost everybody passing by stopped for a look. Most snapped photos.
Despite the interest, nobody gave Addeo flak for putting his wolf on display.
“There hasn’t been one person that’s said anything negative,” he said. “Everybody’s happy.”
Because Addeo was hunting in Wyoming’s wolf predator zone, where there are virtually no rules, a license was not necessary. The free-fire zone encompasses about 85 percent of the state. The southern edge of the zone starts in Wilson, just south of Highway 22, for about half the year.
Addeo could have shot all five wolves if he had the opportunity. The other four packmates, however, scampered off.
“After the shot went off,” Addeo said, “we ran the draw and never saw them again.”
Exposing the Big Game 
A long time ago I used to like Wyoming…
Right, a long time ago.
Sick SOB – f***ing murderer….
Meegwech! No human being with a good heart would do this. He needs to be tied to a tree in the woods, unarmed, to think about what he did. I hope AIM follows through on this one! Until these sub-human dogs are shunned by society, our sacred guardian creatures will continue to be murdered!
Oh, greetings from Abenaki Country! –
Grandmother Sleeping Wolf.
With all due respect, these cretins are not anywhere near good enough to be called dogs. I would welcome almost any dog into my home, but not one of these nut-jobs. And I agree about the tying to a tree unarmed part.
‘No offense to dogs of the four-legged variety’! I meant the two legged kind who harm animals to get their jollies, burn down houses and pees the bed right into j-h-s.
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just one thing i don’t think i’ll ever understand. surviving in the forest, k, kill the wolf. he’s in your chicken coop every day, ok, but just to kill for the sake of … shooting a gun and killing? that’s a mentality i just don’t think i will ever be able to hold as being human.
That poor wolf. I will never understand the thirst these hunters have for taking an life.
No, you never will; there’s no sense to it.
Hey fella who shot the beautiful wolf
I am complaining now!
What reason in God’s name would you have for killing this member of a family where the mated pair are for life and have amazing family values!
What reason? Because Wyoming board who made a policy decision on bad data and no science, and is packed with hunters?
Do you have a moral compass?
We apologize to the Wolves for you ignorance and disrespect.
Bless the wolves
Man knows not what he does, again!
May I respectfully disagree. Man knows exactly what he/she does. Problem is, for many, they do not care beyond their own self-gratification.
Actually, you are more correct than you know! As painful as it is, look closely at the poor dead creature’s nose! That’s the start of a Winter snow nose. Wolves do not have a snow nose. Malamutes and Huskies do. Therefore that poor girl is a Wolfdog! Maybe decended from old ‘village dog’ bloodlines or just some other a-hole moved and left his sled dogs to run with the wolves or starve? This animal is very high content wolf dog. That just makes me all the more sickened by this! Usually everyone else says humans suck. Today it’s my turn as I listen to the sleeping sounds of three rescued wolfdogs hogging my bed. I ask myself how anyone could think these happy, goofy fools could be considered ‘game’? The real danger wasn’t tied to the roof of the SUV, he was driving it into town.
Aho!
Low life scum bags – the wolf is dead and these miserable POS get to breath- UNFAIR
This guy is human garbage. This wolf wasn’t doing any harm–just resting after feeding. So this A-Hole decided to blow her away for thrills. Now the rest of her pack will be disrupted, potentially causing the very problems that these brainless idiots say they are trying to curtail. This worthless moron has proven once again that the states are incapable of “managing” wolves.
He wasn’t trying to “manage” or curtail bad behavior; he was, as you said, just out for a thrill.
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What can anyone say? People like this are hopeless. They are incapable of empathy or compassion or understanding. They’re killers. They’re cavemen throwbacks. They’re mired in the “old-think” that idolizes dominance, force, power. He’s proud of what he did.
This guy’s a serial killer. What difference does it make that his victim is a different species? The impulse is exactly the same, the gratification is the same, the craving for absolute control over a living being is the same. Bill Addeo, if ever there was an advocacy case for abortion, you are it. I wish I could go back in time and whisper in your mother’s ear, “Get rid of that vile mass in your belly, that filthy glob of evil that will spew suffering and torment into the world.” Bill Addeo, you are one hideous demon.
I bet he’s got NRA embroidered on his panties? And a poster of Sarah Palin on his outhouse door… this guy is the rare very stupid serial killer profile. If there was one single guy in all of Jackson Hole that was a ‘real man’ that day, the a-hole would be in the ICU, missing a few parts…
Thanks Pam & Melody for your comments. I fear that there such killers as this are not that rare. We have a society that is addicted to violence and sadism. I truly hope this “man” gets a bullet in his crotch one of these days. That whole area outside the Yellowstone is very reactionary, red-neck. I met a couple (biologists) when I was there who were ostracized by most everyone in their small town because they had politely asked rednecks with snowmobiles not to run on their property. They were refused service wherever they went. We are dealing with very ignorant, cruel subcultures–and they are really strong now because they have the law behind them.
Rosemary, they won’t be in power much longer. The crap they post online, the coyote and wolf torture, live abortions of baby wolves, rapes of dying wolve…etc, trust me, the law suits are coming, changes will be made! As for the biologists who were treated poorly, my friend Woody, who is a 78 year old War Vet got $1300 worth of work done on his Harley and after he paid in cash, the shop owner asked him if he would open the snowmobile trail through his yard. Woody said no, he didn’t want the noise all night long. So the shop owner said “You are a real asshole, aren’t you?” Woody got so pissed that he put his Harley up for sale and gave a Kawaski 600 away! There are going to be arrogant assholes, trophy hunters and worse. Grow a thick skin and kick some political ass until change comes!
Sorry for the typo mistakes: I meant to say “I fear that such killers as this are not that rare.”
what a piece of shit, he needs a neck wound, hopefully he will die a slow painfull death
Yup, a slow, cold, lonely and afraid death while suffering from a painful injury should be his karma but I would settle for falling through thin ice in swift running water. The picture was probably a cheap trick by the guide to get more business? He should lose his guiding business for unprofessional activities. Not that I think guiding people to kill animals has any hope of being professional… it’s a job for sociopaths, not normal people. Did you ever notice that all the beautiful, wild places tend to have a high concentration of crazies? Maybe, just maybe, the gun dealers should have to check if these guys are on a ‘nut pension’ before selling them hunting weapons? So many times we read stories of some guy with a long list of serious violations, a history of mental health issues and a ‘missing ex-wife” getting shot by cops on a DV call on his new wife and nobody says a word to the cops or the press on record until they know he’s really dead? Do we have to wait forever to save the animals and people from the small but dangerously warped element? And why do we protect them by hiding their records as teens? Past behavior is a good predictor of future behavior! I am so sick of reading the case histories because it’s like reading the same book over and over again. The only difference is to what extent their sadistic minds will go to impress other killers/enemies. This stunt was murder for attention, even if it’s bad attention. Doesn’t say much for parenting skills if a kid grows up getting no praise for good deeds and turns to bad ones to get any attention at all! This is not the first pairing of attention grabbing misfits online but it usually starts with dead animals, could end up with people or go on for years as animals suffering?
Jim, I am writing an article for the Wildlife Professional (a professional journal for those in wildlife management) regarding the rise of the animal welfare movement, and I would like to use one of the photos you display on this page. (I use the anecdote described here to introduce the article.) Could you contact me and let me know? My contact info can be found here: https://senr.osu.edu/our-people/jeremy-t-bruskotter