Sounds like the title of some slasher film, I know.
There was a villager causing lots of warnings to show up in the logs. I googled the warning and found that eventually it could cause the game to crash repeatedly. The only fix? Murder. I struck that poor guy down with the fury of the gods.
So, if you're missing a butcher, you know why. Sorry. His unwitting existence was threatening to undo the very fabric of reality itself.
Sounds like fanfic material to me...
Ah, it's good to see the smiting still happens.