I killed a random guy on his horse because he was wearing fine clothes and I thought he had good loot. After I killed him and his body guard I didn't get the "last witnesses killed" message like I usually do. I look all around me for potential witnesses but I didn't see anyone. I end up killing the horse and then I got the witnesses killed message. Not that I go around killing chickens but as an experiment I killed one and they do the same thing if you don't kill them in time. Why would they allow animals to report crimes?

Because the Nords think they are more important than the Dunmer.

They said they fixed this bug... THEY LIED!

Same thing happened with me and this dog. It was sad because I like the dogs in Skyrim (so cute) but I had to kill it ....


Sooner or later they'll have trees being witnesses to murder .....

So the guards now say, "I'm going to see a horse about a man"...

I remember attacking a noble and his guards in a random encounter and the bounty wasn't removed until the horse died,

Although it is considerably less annoying than it being impossible to kill all witnesses with an essential character in the vicinity.