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2000s
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Name, age, gender |
Date |
Location, Comments |
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Annemarie Campbell, 23, female |
May 14, 2006 |
Her body was pulled out of an alligator's mouth on this date by friends and relatives in a springhead at Juniper Wayside
Park in the Ocala National Forest near Lake George in Marion County, Florida. She had been attacked while snorkeling. Autopsy results confirmed that Campbell died from drowning and multiple
blunt-force injuries including lacerations on her head, neck and upper torso, and multiple rib fractures. |
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Judy W. Cooper, 43, female |
May 14, 2006 |
Her body was found on this date in a canal in Pinellas County, Florida, 20 miles north of St. Petersburg. She had been in the water for about 3 days. Preliminary autopsy results indicate a fatal alligator attack.
The official cause of death is pending – awaiting the release of autopsy results. |
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Yovy Suarez Jiménez, 28, female |
May 10, 2006 |
Construction workers found her dismembered body on this date floating in a canal between Markham County Park and State
Road 84 in Sunrise, Florida. Authorities later captured the 9' 6" alligator that killed her during her nightly jog on May 9. The Broward County medical examiner concluded that she was attacked on land and dragged into the canal. |
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Kevin Albert Murray, 41, male |
July 15, 2005 |
Killed while swimming in the Apollo waterway in Port Charlotte, Florida by a 12' 2" alligator. |
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Don Owen, 56, male |
March 15, 2005 |
Fishermen discovered the body of Owen on this date about 12 miles from his Lakeland, Florida home. He had been missing since March 9. Trappers later caught an 8' 9" alligator and recovered body parts from
Owen. |
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Michelle Reeves, 20, female |
September 26, 2004 |
Killed by a 7' 11" alligator while swimming in a retention pond at Lee Memorial Health Park in |
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Janie Milsek, 54, female |
June 21, 2004 |
Attacked by a 12' 3" alligator while working on landscaping along Poinciana Circle Sanibel, Florida. She later died in surgery. |
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Brian Griffin, 12, male |
June 18, 2003 |
Killed by a 10' 4" alligator while swimming in the Dead River near a boat ramp; the river connects Lakes Harris and Eustis
in Lake County, Florida. |
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Robert Steele, 82, male |
September 11, 2001 |
Attacked by an alligator while walking his dog on a trail between two wetland areas in the J.N. "Ding" Darling National
Wildlife Refuge near Sanibel, Florida. Steele bled to death after his leg was bitten off below the knee. |
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Alexandria Murphy, 2, female |
June 23, 2001 |
Killed after wandering away from her home on Lake Cannon, Polk County, Florida. A deputy sheriff found her body 700 feet from her home at the edge of the lake. |
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Samuel Wetmore, 70, male |
May 4, 2001 |
Killed in a pond near his residence in Venice, Sarasota County, Florida by an 8' 4" alligator. Wetmore suffered from dementia and had wandered from his home. |
1990s
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Name, age, gender |
Date |
Location, Comments |
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Adam Binford, 3, male |
March 21, 1997 |
Killed by an 11-foot alligator after straying outside a roped-off area in Lake Ashby, Volusia County, Florida. Wildlife officials shot the alligator, which was still holding the lifeless body of the boy 20 hours later.
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Grace Eberhart, 70, female |
October 3, 1993 |
Killed by one or more alligators at Lake Serenity, Sumter County, Florida. She died of a broken neck caused by an alligator bite to the throat and head. |
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Bradley Weidenhamer, 10, male |
June 19, 1993 |
Killed while wading in the Loxahatchee River at Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Martin County, Florida. |
1980s
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Name, age, gender |
Date |
Location, Comments |
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Erin Glover, 4, female |
June 4, 1988 |
Killed while walking along the shore of Hidden Lake, Charlotte County, Florida. |
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George Cummings III, 29, male |
July 13, 1987 |
Killed while snorkeling in the Wakulla Springs State Park, Wakulla County, Florida by an 11-foot alligator. |
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Robert Crespo, 11, male |
August 6, 1984 |
Killed by a 12' 4" alligator while swimming in a canal in St. Lucie County, Florida. |
1970s
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Name, age, gender |
Date |
Location, Comments |
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Phillip Rastrelli, 14, male |
September 10, 1978 |
Killed while swimming across the Hidden River Canal off Bessie Creek in Martin County, Florida. |
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George Leonard, 52, male |
September 28, 1977 |
Killed while swimming in the Peace River Canal, Charlotte County, Florida. |
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Sharon Holmes, 16, female |
August 16, 1973 |
Killed while swimming in the Myakka River at Oscar Scherer State Park, Sarasota County, Florida by an 11' 3" alligator. |
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