Coyotes.....where are you searching cause Coyotes are very and I mean very rare around here. I saw one in 15 yrs of hunting and it could have been a large fox. You live in Stafford and I'm only an hour away. There are no Coyotes there nor at Quntico which is a big chunk of the land in that area. I think that deer died of a old injury ,disease, or an infection and was eaten by vultures or fox.