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Associated Press

Friday, May 19, 2006


Associated Press
CAUGHT AND KILLED: Florida trapper Curtis Lucas shows the jaw size of an alligator he killed after capturing it in Florida's Ocala National Forest. Caught Thursday, the alligator is believed to be the one that killed Annmarie Campbell, 23, of Tennessee on Sunday while she snorkeled in Juniper Run in the forest. She was the 19th alligator victim since 1948 and one of three in the last week. Other recent victims were Judy Cooper, 43, of Dunedin, Fla., and jogger Yovy Suarez Jiminez, 28. Human arms were found in the belly of another gator officials believe stalked and killed Jiminez along a canal in Fort Lauderdale. That 9-foot 6-inch gator was killed Sunday.