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Article: Missing Boy, 3, Found in Florida Alligator's Jaws; Child Disappeared on Family Picnic While Playing With Dog in Shallow Water
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 23, 1997
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Trappers recovered the body of a 3-year-old boy today from
the jaws of an alligator that killed him while he was playing by a
lake in central Florida.
Alligator trappers, who searched Lake Ashby all night looking
for an alligator large enough to have taken a child, killed the
11-foot beast with three blasts from a shotgun.
The alligator, which was discovered one mile from where Adam
Binford disappeared on Friday, still had the boy's body in its jaws,
authorities said.
"He hadn't been eaten or anything," trapper Roy Speck said.
"I just don't know what that 'gator was up to."
Adam had been playing with his dog and picking petals off
water ...