OCALA NATIONAL FOREST -- (AP) --Wildlife officials confirmed Friday that an alligator they had captured and killed last week is the one that fatally attacked a Tennessee woman while she was snorkeling in a secluded recreation area.
Trappers caught the 11-foot-4-inch, 407-pound alligator last Thursday in Juniper Creek, near Lake George, where Annemarie Campbell of Paris, Tenn., was attacked.
Wildlife officials who performed a necropsy on the alligator last week said the animal bore scratch marks on its snout and a stab wound in its right eyelid, but there was nothing in its stomach.
On Friday, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokeswoman Joy Hill said their investigations, witness statements and a comparison of the alligator's teeth to marks on Campbell's body confirmed they had the right animal.
The body of 23-year-old Campbell was found sticking out of the alligator's mouth on May 14. Friends beat the reptile until it released Campbell's body. Her death was the third fatal alligator attack in Florida this month.
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