"The Butcher"
 


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Doug Duchesne leads a simple life. “I don’t want anything more than what I was given,” said Duchesne. But his job is one that few could perform. “When people ask me what I do I say ‘I’m a hired killer,” Duchesne says jokingly.
Duchesne slaughters livestock at a meat processing establishment just outside Fulton, MO., Farmers from surrounding communities bring their pigs and cattle to Duchesne to be killed and processed into appropriate portions.