Name, age, gender |
Date |
Location, Comments |
Matthew Riggins, 22, male |
on or about November 13, 2015 |
A police dive team found the victim's body in a pond in Palm Bay's Barefoot Bay community in Brevard County, Florida ten days after he was reported missing. Riggins, who had been burglarizing homes in the area, was attacked and partially eaten by an 11-foot alligator.[2][3] |
James Okkerse, 62, male |
October 19, 2015 |
Killed while swimming/snorkeling by a 12-foot alligator at Blue Spring State Park near Orange City, Florida. The final cause of death was determined by the Volusia County medical examiner's office in consultation with a forensic odontologist from a neighboring county who specializes in animal bites.[4][5][6] |
Tommie Woodward, 28, male |
July 3, 2015 |
Suffered severe trauma to a limb when he was attacked and killed in the early morning at a Southeast Texas marina. Woodward ignored warnings not to swim in the water because of the danger of alligators; his last known words were "[fuck] the alligators".[7][8] |
Name, age, gender |
Date |
Location, Comments |
Justo Padron, 36, male |
November 13, 2007 |
A man fleeing police by jumping into a retention pond adjacent to the Miccosukee Resort and Convention Center was killed by a 9-foot 3-inch (2.8 m) alligator according to the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiners office. Padron and an accomplice were suspected of breaking into cars in the parking lot of the resort which is located at 500 SW 177th Ave. in southwest Miami-Dade County when police closed in.[9][10][11] |
Gwen Williams, 83, female |
October 5, 2007 |
The body of this Canadian woman, who had been house sitting for her daughter, was spotted floating in a lagoon 500 feet (200 m) behind her daughter's house by a couple riding by in a golf cart at The Landings on Skidaway Island, a development east of Savannah, Georgia. Autopsy results and an examination of the stomach contents during a necropsy of the animal suspected of killing her conclusively established that she had been attacked and killed by an 8 foot (2.5 m) alligator.[12][13][14] |
Annemarie Campbell, 23, female |
May 14, 2006 |
Her body was pulled out of an alligator's mouth 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. Officials later captured and killed an 11-foot 4-inch (3.5 m), 407 pound alligator that they were able to positively identify as the one that attacked Campbell due to scratches around its eyes that she inflicted while attempting to defend herself.[15][16][17][18] |
Judy W. Cooper, 43, female |
May 14, 2006 |
Her body was found in a canal near Oldsmar in Pinellas County, Florida, 20 miles (30 km) north of St. Petersburg. She had been in the water for about three days. Preliminary autopsy results indicated a fatal alligator attack. Her arm and hand were later recovered from an 8.5-foot (2.6 m) alligator.[15][17][18] |
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" (3 m) alligator that killed her during her nightly jog on May 9 when she stopped to dangle her feet in the water of the canal. Officials were able to verify this because both her arms were found in the digestive tract of the animal during the necropsy. The Broward County medical examiner concluded that she was attacked on land and dragged into the canal.[15][17][18][19] |
Kevin Albert Murray, 41, male |
July 15, 2005 |
Killed while swimming in the Apollo waterway in Port Charlotte, Florida by a 12' 2" (3.7 m) alligator.[19][20][21] |
Don Owen, 56, male |
March 15, 2005 |
Fishermen discovered Owen's body about 12 miles (19 km) from his Lakeland, Florida home. He had been missing since March 9. Trappers later caught an 8' 9" (2.7 m) alligator and recovered some of Owen's body parts.[19] |
Michelle Reeves, 20, female |
September 26, 2004 |
Killed by a 7' 11" (2.4 m) alligator while swimming in a retention pond at Lee Memorial Health Park in Lee County, Florida.[19][21] |
Janie Melsek, 54, female |
June 21, 2004 |
Attacked by a 12' 3" (3.7 m) alligator while working on landscaping along Poinciana Circle Sanibel, Florida. She later died in surgery from an infection acquired from being in the water with open wounds.[19][21][22] |
Brian Griffin, 12, male |
June 18, 2003 |
Killed by a 10' 4" (3.1 m) alligator while swimming in the Dead River near a boat ramp; the river connects Lakes Harris and Eustis in Lake County, Florida.[19][21][23] |
Robert Steele, 81, male |
September 11, 2001 |
Attacked by an alligator while walking his dog on a trail between two wetland areas near the J.N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel, Florida. Steele bled to death after his leg was bitten off below the knee.[19][21] |
Alexandria Murphy, 2, female |
June 23, 2001 |
She wandered away from her fenced back yard and was killed 700 feet from her home on Lake Cannon in Polk County, Florida.[19][21] |
Samuel Wetmore, 70, male |
May 4, 2001 |
Killed in a pond near his residence in Venice, Sarasota County, Florida by an 8' 4" (2.5 m) alligator. Wetmore suffered from dementia and had wandered from his home.[19][21] |
Name, age, gender |
Date |
Location, Comments |
Adam Binford, 3, male |
March 21, 1997 |
Killed by an 11-foot (3.4 m) 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.[19][21] |
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.[19][21] |
Bradley Weidenhamer, 10, male |
June 19, 1993 |
Killed while wading in the Loxahatchee River at Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Martin County, Florida.[19][21] |