NORWICH — The Norwich Police Department concluded a 20-day long animal cruelty investigation on June 23 involving two Norwich residents and the death of a dog.

Police charged Todd A Talbot, 39, and Sherri Marie Campbell, 52, with torturing and injuring an animal, overdriving and failure to provide proper nourishment, the police report said.

On June 3, officers found a “badly decomposed” adult male dog inside of a small wire cage behind a barn on 22 Clinton Street, Chief Reuben Roach said. The dog was a mixed breed, Roach said, and police estimated the age of the dog to have been between two and six.