Human remains discovered in jaws of alligator in Houston

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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.

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The terrifying discovery in Houston comes less than a year after another body – that of a woman – was found in the mouth of an alligator in Florida.

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

Authorities said a sergeant shot and killed the reptile “to prevent it from causing further damage to the remains.”

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

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

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Police were awaiting the results of the autopsy of the remains.

“(The alligators) live there. We see babies eight or ten feet tall. I know which banks to stay away from and where they like to lay in the sun,” local Angela Derous told KTRK-TV. “This is the first time I’ve heard of this 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 mouth of a four-meter alligator in Largo, Florida.

Last February, an 85-year-old woman was killed by a ten-foot alligator while walking her dog in Fort Pierce, Florida.

Alligator attacks in Texas are rare; However, earlier this month, a police officer in Cleveland, Texas, was bitten by a ten-foot alligator while trying to remove it from a roadway.

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