Fatal Alligator Attacks in the U.S.
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| Name | Age | Sex | Day | Month | Year | City or county | State | Comments |
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| Sabrina Peckham | 41 | Female | 23 | September | 2023 | Largo | Florida | Peckham’s body was found near an irrigation canal in Largo, Florida, when a witness spotted a 14-foot-long alligator biting down on what appeared to be a portion of a mannequin. Peckham was homeless, and only two months prior had been arrested for trespassing on wetland property less than a mile from where her body was found. |
| Holly Jenkins | 69 | Female | 4 | July | 2023 | Hilton Head Island | South Carolina | The victim was attacked and killed by an alligator as she was walking her dogs in her neighborhood of Spanish Wells in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. First responders were not immediately able to reach the victim because the alligator had crawled out of the water and was "guarding" her body. |
| Gloria Serge | 85 | Female | 20 | February | 2023 | Fort Pierce | Florida | The victim was walking her dog next to a pond at the Spanish Lakes Fairways retirement community in Fort Pierce, Florida. The alligator first attacked the dog and when the woman tried to save the dog, she too was attacked. The dog survived. |
| Nancy Becker | 88 | Female | 15 | August | 2022 | Bluffton | South Carolina | The victim was in her backyard in a gated Sun City community in Bluffton, South Carolina, and was attacked by a nearly 10-foot-long alligator. The victim's body was found being guarded by the alligator and was later recovered. |
| Rose Marie Wiegand | 80 | Female | 15 | July | 2022 | Englewood | Florida | The victim fell into a pond along a golf course in Englewood, Florida, and was attacked by two alligators. |
| Michael Burstein | 75 | Male | 24 | June | 2022 | Myrtle Beach | South Carolina | The victim was dragged into a pond in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The victim's body was recovered later, and a subsequent post-mortem established that Mr. Burstein drowned. |
| Sean McGuinness | 47 | Male | 31 | May | 2022 | Largo | Florida | The victim was attacked while trying to retrieve frisbee golf discs in the lake at John S. Taylor Park in Largo, Florida. Police believed McGuinness had entered the lake during nighttime hours, as his body did not appear to have been in the lake for a long period when a person walking their dog discovered it along the shoreline with its arm torn off around 8:00 a.m. |
| Timothy Satterlee | 71 | Male | 30 | August | 2021 | Slidell | Louisiana | The victim was attacked in floodwaters of Hurricane Ida near the city of Slidell, Louisiana, which is just across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans. The attack was witnessed by the victim's wife, who said the alligator bit his arm off. A 12-foot-long alligator believed to have attacked Satterlee was captured and killed on September 13, 2021. Human remains were found in its stomach. Although Louisiana, like Florida, has approximately 1.5 million alligators, this was Louisiana's only known fatal alligator attack. |
| Cynthia Covert | 58 | Female | 1 | May | 2020 | Kiawah Island | South Carolina | The victim was pulled under and drowned by an alligator in a pond behind a home near Salt Cedar Lane, Kiawah Island, South Carolina. |
| Cassandra Cline | 45 | Female | 20 | August | 2018 | Hilton Head | South Carolina | Dragged to her death while walking her dog near a golf course in the gated community of Sea Pines in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Witnesses said Cline was attempting to protect her dog when the alligator pulled her into a lagoon. The dog was unharmed |
| Shizuka Matsuki | 47 | Female | 8 | June | 2018 | Davie | Florida | Dragged to her death and dismembered while walking dogs at the Silver Lake Rotary Nature Park in Davie, Florida. |
| Bonnie Walker | 90 | Female | 29 | July | 2016 | Charleston | South Carolina | Walker's body was found in a retention pond near Brookdale Senior Living Center in Charleston, South Carolina. According to coroners, she died from "multiple sharp and blunt force injuries" that are consistent with those inflicted by an alligator. |
| Lane Graves | 2 | Male | 14 | June | 2016 | Orlando | Florida | An alligator, 4 to 7 feet long, dragged the victim underwater in the Seven Seas Lagoon about 9:00 p.m. on June 14, 2016, at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa just outside of Orlando, Florida. His parents tried to rescue him; the father was attacked by a second alligator. The victim's body was found nearby the next day, intact and apparently drowned. |
| Richard Zachary Taylor | 72 | Male | 5 | June | 2016 | Lakeland | Florida | Police recovered Taylor's body after a report of an alligator with a body in its mouth near Lake Hunter in Lakeland, Florida. A trapper responded a short time later and eventually caught the alligator. Detectives do not know whether Taylor drowned or was killed by the reptile. His body was decomposed, indicating he had been in the water a couple of days or longer. Remains found inside the alligator during a necropsy were a match to Taylor. |
| Matthew Riggins | 22 | Male | 13 | November | 2015 | Brevard County | Florida | A police dive team found the victim's body in a pond in Micco, Florida Barefoot Bay community in Brevard County 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 (3.4 meters) alligator. |
| James Okkerse | 62 | Male | 19 | October | 2015 | Orange City | Florida | Okkerse was killed while swimming/snorkeling by a 12-foot (3.7 meters) 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. |
| Tommie Woodward | 28 | Male | 4 | July | 2015 | Orange | Texas | After an 11-foot alligator appeared at Burkarts Marina in Orange, Texas, bystanders were told to stay out of the water. Tommie Woodward mocked the alligator and jumped into the water in close proximity to the alligator and was immediately pulled underwater; his body was later found with severe trauma to the chest. This was the first recorded fatal alligator attack in Texas since 1836. |
| Justo Padron | 36 | Male | 13 | November | 2007 | Miami | Florida | Rose Marie Wiegand |
| Gwen Williams | 83 | Female | 5 | October | 2007 | Savannah | Georgia | A Canadian woman who had been house sitting for her daughter at The Landings on Skidaway Island, east of Savannah, Georgia, was spotted floating in a lagoon 500 feet (200 m) behind her daughter's house. Autopsy results and a necropsy of the animal established that she had been attacked and killed by an 8-foot (2.5 m) alligator. |
| Annemarie Campbell | 23 | Female | 14 | May | 2006 | Marion County | Florida | 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. |
| Judy W. Cooper | 43 | Female | 14 | May | 2006 | Pinellas County | Florida | 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. |
| Yovy Suarez Jiménez | 28 | Female | 10 | May | 2006 | Sunrise | Florida | Her dismembered body was found floating in a canal between Markham County Park and State Road 84 in Sunrise, Florida. She was killed while jogging the previous evening by a 9' 6 (3 m) alligator; her arms were found in the animal's digestive tract during necropsy, and the Broward County medical examiner concluded that she was attacked on land and dragged into the canal. |
| Kevin Albert Murray | 41 | Male | 15 | July | 2005 | Port Charlotte | Florida | He was killed while swimming in the Apollo waterway in Port Charlotte, Florida, by a 12' 2 (3.7 m) alligator. |
| Don Owen | 56 | Male | 15 | March | 2005 | Lakeland | Florida | 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. |
| Michelle Reeves | 20 | Female | 26 | September | 2004 | Lee County | Florida | She was killed by a 7' 11 (2.4 m) alligator while swimming in a retention pond at Lee Memorial Health Park in Lee County, Florida. |
| Janie Melsek | 54 | Female | 21 | June | 2004 | Sanibel | Florida | She was 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. |
| Brian Griffin | 12 | Male | 18 | June | 2003 | Lake County | Florida | He was 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. |
| Robert Steele | 81 | Male | 11 | September | 2001 | Sanibel | Florida | He was 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. |
| Alexandria Murphy | 2 | Female | 23 | June | 2001 | Winter Haven | Florida | She wandered away from her fenced backyard and was killed 700 feet from her home on Lake Cannon in Winter Haven, Florida. |
| Samuel Wetmore | 70 | Male | 4 | May | 2001 | Venice | Florida | He was 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. |
| Adam Binford | 3 | Male | 21 | March | 1997 | Volusia County | Florida | He was 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. |
| Grace Eberhart | 70 | Female | 3 | October | 1993 | Sumter County | Florida | She was 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. |
| Bradley Weidenhamer | 10 | Male | 19 | June | 1993 | Martin County | Florida | He was killed while wading in the Loxahatchee River at Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Martin County, Florida. |
| Erin Glover | 4 | Female | 4 | June | 1988 | Charlotte County | Florida | She was killed while walking along the shore of Hidden Lake, Charlotte County, Florida. |
| George Cummings III | 29 | Male | 13 | July | 1987 | Wakulla County | Florida | He was killed while snorkeling in the Wakulla Springs State Park, Wakulla County, Florida, by an 11-foot (3.4 m) alligator. |
| Paul Mirabito | 27 | Male | 4 | May | 1985 | West Palm Beach | Florida | He was killed while diving and harassing small alligators in a canal near West Palm Beach, Florida. |
| Robert Crespo | 11 | Male | 6 | August | 1984 | St. Lucie County | Florida | He was killed by a 12' 4 (3.8 m) alligator while swimming in a canal in St. Lucie County, Florida. |
| Phillip Rastrelli | 14 | Male | 10 | September | 1978 | Martin County | Florida | He was killed while swimming across the Hidden River Canal off Bessie Creek in Martin County, Florida. |
| George Leonard | 52 | Male | 28 | September | 1977 | Charlotte County | Florida | He was killed while swimming in the Peace River Canal, Charlotte County, Florida. |
| Sharon Holmes | 16 | Female | 16 | August | 1973 | Sarasota County | Florida | She was killed while swimming at the Oscar Scherer State Park, Sarasota County, Florida, by an 11' 3 (3.4 m) alligator. |
| Allen Rice | 9 | Male | June | 1957 | Eau Gallie | Florida | He had been missing several days from his Eau Gallie, Florida, home, when his body was discovered by the Civil Air Patrol on the banks of Horse Creek, and parts of his body were found inside an alligator destroyed by authorities. | |
| Gray B. King | Male | April or June | 1836 | Texas | A settler from Nashville traveling with his family and slaves, he was seized and pulled under by an alligator after jumping into the river to push free a ferry which had run aground. Sources describe the location as Double Bay (just below Anahuac), Buffalo Bayou, or the Trinity River, Texas. | |||
| Jacques du Bois | Male | 10 | August | 1734 | Natchitoches | Louisiana | The blacksmith at Fort St. Jean Baptiste, near what is now Natchitoches, Louisiana, was found dead on the banks of the Cane River, and a coroner's inquest concluded he was killed by an alligator. | |
| Dumesnil | Male | 1685 | Texas | A servant of René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, he was killed while swimming across the Colorado River (Texas). |
Sabrina Peckham
Age: 41
Sex: Female
Day: 23
Month: September
Year: 2023
Comments: Peckham’s body was found near an irrigation canal in Largo, Florida, when a witness spotted a 14-foot-long alligator biting down on what appeared to be a portion of a mannequin. Peckham was homeless, and only two months prior had been arrested for trespassing on wetland property less than a mile from where her body was found.
Holly Jenkins
Age: 69
Sex: Female
Day: 4
Month: July
Year: 2023
Comments: The victim was attacked and killed by an alligator as she was walking her dogs in her neighborhood of Spanish Wells in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. First responders were not immediately able to reach the victim because the alligator had crawled out of the water and was "guarding" her body.
Gloria Serge
Age: 85
Sex: Female
Day: 20
Month: February
Year: 2023
Comments: The victim was walking her dog next to a pond at the Spanish Lakes Fairways retirement community in Fort Pierce, Florida. The alligator first attacked the dog and when the woman tried to save the dog, she too was attacked. The dog survived.
Nancy Becker
Age: 88
Sex: Female
Day: 15
Month: August
Year: 2022
Comments: The victim was in her backyard in a gated Sun City community in Bluffton, South Carolina, and was attacked by a nearly 10-foot-long alligator. The victim's body was found being guarded by the alligator and was later recovered.
Rose Marie Wiegand
Age: 80
Sex: Female
Day: 15
Month: July
Year: 2022
Comments: The victim fell into a pond along a golf course in Englewood, Florida, and was attacked by two alligators.
Michael Burstein
Age: 75
Sex: Male
Day: 24
Month: June
Year: 2022
Comments: The victim was dragged into a pond in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The victim's body was recovered later, and a subsequent post-mortem established that Mr. Burstein drowned.
Sean McGuinness
Age: 47
Sex: Male
Day: 31
Month: May
Year: 2022
Comments: The victim was attacked while trying to retrieve frisbee golf discs in the lake at John S. Taylor Park in Largo, Florida. Police believed McGuinness had entered the lake during nighttime hours, as his body did not appear to have been in the lake for a long period when a person walking their dog discovered it along the shoreline with its arm torn off around 8:00 a.m.
Timothy Satterlee
Age: 71
Sex: Male
Day: 30
Month: August
Year: 2021
Comments: The victim was attacked in floodwaters of Hurricane Ida near the city of Slidell, Louisiana, which is just across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans. The attack was witnessed by the victim's wife, who said the alligator bit his arm off. A 12-foot-long alligator believed to have attacked Satterlee was captured and killed on September 13, 2021. Human remains were found in its stomach. Although Louisiana, like Florida, has approximately 1.5 million alligators, this was Louisiana's only known fatal alligator attack.
Cynthia Covert
Age: 58
Sex: Female
Day: 1
Month: May
Year: 2020
Comments: The victim was pulled under and drowned by an alligator in a pond behind a home near Salt Cedar Lane, Kiawah Island, South Carolina.
Cassandra Cline
Age: 45
Sex: Female
Day: 20
Month: August
Year: 2018
Comments: Dragged to her death while walking her dog near a golf course in the gated community of Sea Pines in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Witnesses said Cline was attempting to protect her dog when the alligator pulled her into a lagoon. The dog was unharmed
Shizuka Matsuki
Age: 47
Sex: Female
Day: 8
Month: June
Year: 2018
Comments: Dragged to her death and dismembered while walking dogs at the Silver Lake Rotary Nature Park in Davie, Florida.
Bonnie Walker
Age: 90
Sex: Female
Day: 29
Month: July
Year: 2016
Comments: Walker's body was found in a retention pond near Brookdale Senior Living Center in Charleston, South Carolina. According to coroners, she died from "multiple sharp and blunt force injuries" that are consistent with those inflicted by an alligator.
Lane Graves
Age: 2
Sex: Male
Day: 14
Month: June
Year: 2016
Comments: An alligator, 4 to 7 feet long, dragged the victim underwater in the Seven Seas Lagoon about 9:00 p.m. on June 14, 2016, at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa just outside of Orlando, Florida. His parents tried to rescue him; the father was attacked by a second alligator. The victim's body was found nearby the next day, intact and apparently drowned.
Richard Zachary Taylor
Age: 72
Sex: Male
Day: 5
Month: June
Year: 2016
Comments: Police recovered Taylor's body after a report of an alligator with a body in its mouth near Lake Hunter in Lakeland, Florida. A trapper responded a short time later and eventually caught the alligator. Detectives do not know whether Taylor drowned or was killed by the reptile. His body was decomposed, indicating he had been in the water a couple of days or longer. Remains found inside the alligator during a necropsy were a match to Taylor.
Matthew Riggins
Age: 22
Sex: Male
Day: 13
Month: November
Year: 2015
Comments: A police dive team found the victim's body in a pond in Micco, Florida Barefoot Bay community in Brevard County 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 (3.4 meters) alligator.
James Okkerse
Age: 62
Sex: Male
Day: 19
Month: October
Year: 2015
Comments: Okkerse was killed while swimming/snorkeling by a 12-foot (3.7 meters) 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.
Tommie Woodward
Age: 28
Sex: Male
Day: 4
Month: July
Year: 2015
Comments: After an 11-foot alligator appeared at Burkarts Marina in Orange, Texas, bystanders were told to stay out of the water. Tommie Woodward mocked the alligator and jumped into the water in close proximity to the alligator and was immediately pulled underwater; his body was later found with severe trauma to the chest. This was the first recorded fatal alligator attack in Texas since 1836.
Justo Padron
Gwen Williams
Age: 83
Sex: Female
Day: 5
Month: October
Year: 2007
Comments: A Canadian woman who had been house sitting for her daughter at The Landings on Skidaway Island, east of Savannah, Georgia, was spotted floating in a lagoon 500 feet (200 m) behind her daughter's house. Autopsy results and a necropsy of the animal established that she had been attacked and killed by an 8-foot (2.5 m) alligator.
Annemarie Campbell
Age: 23
Sex: Female
Day: 14
Month: May
Year: 2006
Comments: 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.
Judy W. Cooper
Age: 43
Sex: Female
Day: 14
Month: May
Year: 2006
Comments: 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.
Yovy Suarez Jiménez
Age: 28
Sex: Female
Day: 10
Month: May
Year: 2006
Comments: Her dismembered body was found floating in a canal between Markham County Park and State Road 84 in Sunrise, Florida. She was killed while jogging the previous evening by a 9' 6 (3 m) alligator; her arms were found in the animal's digestive tract during necropsy, and the Broward County medical examiner concluded that she was attacked on land and dragged into the canal.
Kevin Albert Murray
Age: 41
Sex: Male
Day: 15
Month: July
Year: 2005
Comments: He was killed while swimming in the Apollo waterway in Port Charlotte, Florida, by a 12' 2 (3.7 m) alligator.
Don Owen
Age: 56
Sex: Male
Day: 15
Month: March
Year: 2005
Comments: 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.
Michelle Reeves
Age: 20
Sex: Female
Day: 26
Month: September
Year: 2004
Comments: She was killed by a 7' 11 (2.4 m) alligator while swimming in a retention pond at Lee Memorial Health Park in Lee County, Florida.
Janie Melsek
Age: 54
Sex: Female
Day: 21
Month: June
Year: 2004
Comments: She was 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.
Brian Griffin
Age: 12
Sex: Male
Day: 18
Month: June
Year: 2003
Comments: He was 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.
Robert Steele
Age: 81
Sex: Male
Day: 11
Month: September
Year: 2001
Comments: He was 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.
Alexandria Murphy
Age: 2
Sex: Female
Day: 23
Month: June
Year: 2001
Comments: She wandered away from her fenced backyard and was killed 700 feet from her home on Lake Cannon in Winter Haven, Florida.
Samuel Wetmore
Age: 70
Sex: Male
Day: 4
Month: May
Year: 2001
Comments: He was 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.
Adam Binford
Age: 3
Sex: Male
Day: 21
Month: March
Year: 1997
Comments: He was 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.
Grace Eberhart
Age: 70
Sex: Female
Day: 3
Month: October
Year: 1993
Comments: She was 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.
Bradley Weidenhamer
Age: 10
Sex: Male
Day: 19
Month: June
Year: 1993
Comments: He was killed while wading in the Loxahatchee River at Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Martin County, Florida.
Erin Glover
Age: 4
Sex: Female
Day: 4
Month: June
Year: 1988
Comments: She was killed while walking along the shore of Hidden Lake, Charlotte County, Florida.
George Cummings III
Age: 29
Sex: Male
Day: 13
Month: July
Year: 1987
Comments: He was killed while snorkeling in the Wakulla Springs State Park, Wakulla County, Florida, by an 11-foot (3.4 m) alligator.
Paul Mirabito
Age: 27
Sex: Male
Day: 4
Month: May
Year: 1985
Comments: He was killed while diving and harassing small alligators in a canal near West Palm Beach, Florida.
Robert Crespo
Age: 11
Sex: Male
Day: 6
Month: August
Year: 1984
Comments: He was killed by a 12' 4 (3.8 m) alligator while swimming in a canal in St. Lucie County, Florida.
Phillip Rastrelli
Age: 14
Sex: Male
Day: 10
Month: September
Year: 1978
Comments: He was killed while swimming across the Hidden River Canal off Bessie Creek in Martin County, Florida.
George Leonard
Age: 52
Sex: Male
Day: 28
Month: September
Year: 1977
Comments: He was killed while swimming in the Peace River Canal, Charlotte County, Florida.
Sharon Holmes
Age: 16
Sex: Female
Day: 16
Month: August
Year: 1973
Comments: She was killed while swimming at the Oscar Scherer State Park, Sarasota County, Florida, by an 11' 3 (3.4 m) alligator.
Allen Rice
Age: 9
Sex: Male
Month: June
Year: 1957
Comments: He had been missing several days from his Eau Gallie, Florida, home, when his body was discovered by the Civil Air Patrol on the banks of Horse Creek, and parts of his body were found inside an alligator destroyed by authorities.
Gray B. King
Sex: Male
Month: April or June
Year: 1836
Comments: A settler from Nashville traveling with his family and slaves, he was seized and pulled under by an alligator after jumping into the river to push free a ferry which had run aground. Sources describe the location as Double Bay (just below Anahuac), Buffalo Bayou, or the Trinity River, Texas.
Jacques du Bois
Sex: Male
Day: 10
Month: August
Year: 1734
Comments: The blacksmith at Fort St. Jean Baptiste, near what is now Natchitoches, Louisiana, was found dead on the banks of the Cane River, and a coroner's inquest concluded he was killed by an alligator.
Dumesnil
Sex: Male
Year: 1685
Comments: A servant of René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, he was killed while swimming across the Colorado River (Texas).