Police Try To Identify Armless Body Found In Canal Near Alligator
POSTED: Thursday, June 5, 2008
UPDATED: 4:18 pm EDT June 5,2008
  Authorities released a composite sketch in an effort to identify a deceased man whose armless body was found floating in a Polk County canal near an alligator. |
LAKELAND, Fla. -- Authorities released a composite sketch on Thursday in an effort to identify a deceased man whose armless body was found last month floating in a Polk County canal near an alligator.The man's body was found May 17 by two fishermen in a canal off Saddle Creek on the south side of U.S. 92 in Lakeland near Philip's Bait and Tackle.Detectives have not recovered the man's arms, which were missing from his body when he was found, so fingerprint identification is impossible, Polk County sheriff's deputies said.An autopsy showed that the man, believed to be between the ages of 35 and 50, drowned.The body of an alligator captured in the canal by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission did not contain any body parts, officials said.Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
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