well he is not the only one to blame, the law went a year ago, the property owner said she and alot of others had called several times in the past so more than just him didnt care enough to take them a year ago or when all the people reported it including land owner, i bet if someone would have called one of those animal rescue shows a year ago those horses and dogs would still be alive, they would have done the job unlike whoever was called and did nothing, so not only was cliff to blame but also law enforcement and animal control who responded year ago and friday. but to all the people who tried to help by reporting at least you tried to help, unlike authority personal who was to late to help, they not only failed the animals, but also cliff because if they would have done their job year ago horses wouldnt b dead and maybe cliff wouldnt have took his life over guilt, grief, and the news of cancer that there was no hope of getting better

Sorry but I am most certainly more upset over the animals than the man. At least he went quickly, they starved and lacked water. A much slower and very painful way to go. The Sheriff's office obviously did a poor investigation. Someone needs to lose their job over this... there are plenty of able bodied unemployed people more than willing to handle his job properly.

This Is a sad story. the poor animales. I have called the Humane Society on my neighbor that had left their poor dog out in the rain without any shelter ,only to get arguments out of the man that came to tell me the people did take care of the dog.. well i told him he didn't live here and i wasen't blind!!.teed me off. oh it was raining real hard that day ,guess the man didn't want to get out in it himself..

I also saw this on another news site: "The first call came in the summer of 2009, Animal Control reported minor violations, but deemed the horses—-fit to remain in the care of Clifton Jacobs. The second call came in Friday, but Sheriff Blake Wallace says the horses appeared to be healthy, “Legally we had no standing to enter that residence or even do an exhaustive search of the property without the search warrant,” Wallace said." I have had horses in the past and I have never ever seen one become emaciated in a couple of days. I hope someone looks to see which deputy was assigned to look at these horses.

The more that comes out, the more sickening it is. He may have been diagnosed with cancer on Friday - but the starvation of the horses started WELL before that. There was food there - he failed to give it to them - that's beyond sickening.

The SO was there and said things looked "fine" on Friday. Are you serious?

This man was obviously disturbed - and I guess it's sad he took his own life - but the neglect and abuse he put these animals through makes me very unsympathetic to his suicide and cancer diagnosis.