The truth is that I don’t think there was any harmful intent of the people that did this. I think they were walking along in the woods and saw the deer and said to themselves "Damn there is a deer over there." The deer would have smelled bad (because I made a gut shot) I think they thought the deer was rotten, so they didn’t want the meat but they figured they would take the head.
Believe me if I thought there was anything fishy about this I would have reported it to the authorities instantly. I hate poachers because I view it as stealing from us honest hunters.