Something similar to this happened to my ex years ago. She was coming home from x-mas shopping and hit a deer with her mother's car. A passing trucker reported it to the local police via CB radio and the officer told them to go to the local convience store to fill out the paper, as it was below zero out. When they drove back out to find the deer, it was missing, the officer accused my ex of trying to collect insurance money for hitting something else, but upon looking the scene over, someone drove into the ditch and loaded the deer into their pickup and drove off. All I got out of it was a midnight 25 mile drive in sub zero weather.
On brighter note my group had a 13yr old girl get her first deer this year.