police and sheriff s officials in ohio after the owner of a preserve, game preserve, killed himself and let them loose on the town. the one monkey they couldn t find, police say the t cheetah, ate that monkey. authorities defending the decision to take those animals down. saying it was us or them. ja jason carol. reporter: so many questions this morning. why terry thompson the man that owned all the animals, why he opened the cages and set those animals free. knowing that many of them would most likely be killed. this is a manna by all accounts loved these animals. that s one of the major questions that investigators will be looking at this morning. in all, 49 animals killed. the pictures really tell the whole story. we see those pictures of those animals, wild exotic animals, killed out here. sheriff s deputies telling me they were sickened to have to do what they did to put the animals down but simply felt as though they had no choice. the story actually started to unfo