Human remains found in jaws of gator in Houston

Article content

Authorities in Texas are investigating after human remains were found in the jaws of an alligator during a search in the area for a missing woman.

The terrifying discovery in Houston comes less than a year after another body — of a woman — was found in the mouth of a gator in Florida.

“Patrol officers located the remains of a woman in the jaws of an alligator in the Horsepen Bayou … while searching the area for a woman reported missing,” Houston police said in a statement earlier this week, per CBS News.

Officials said a sergeant shot and killed the reptile “to prevent it from doing more damage to the remains.”

Police said a dive team later recovered the woman’s body and dead alligator from the bayou.

The husband of the unnamed missing woman, in her 60s, alerted police about her disappearance, CBS affiliate KHOU-TV reported, after she went out for a walk and never returned.

Police were awaiting autopsy results of the remains.

“(Alligators) live down there. We see eight-feet, 10-feet babies. I know which banks to stay away from and where they like to lay in the sun,” local Angela Derous told KTRK-TV. “That’s the first time I’ve heard of that happening down here. It’s a little scary.”

In a similar incident about eight months ago, the body of a 41-year-old woman was spotted in the jaws of a four-metre alligator in Largo, Fla.

Last February, an 85-year-old woman was killed by a three-metre alligator while walking her dog in Fort Pierce, Fla.

Gator attacks in Texas are rare; however, earlier this month, a police officer in Cleveland, Texas, was bitten by a three-metre gator while trying to remove it from a roadway.

RECOMMENDED VIDEO

We apologize, but this video has failed to load.

Try refreshing your browser, or
tap here to see other videos from our team.

Play Video