Sun Sentinal– A gruesome drama played out on the edge of the Everglades Monday night, as police tried to recover a human body being eaten by two alligators.
Two fishermen called the police after encountering the scene in a canal west of U.S. 27 in the town of Southwest Ranches in western Broward County. The cause of death was not immediately known, and the police said the body appeared to have been in the water for a long time.
Officers from the Davie Police Department, which patrols Southwest Ranches, arrived and attempted to scare off the alligators, said Davie Police Capt. Dale Engle. Although the animals retreated, he said, they lingered nearby.
A dive team was called in, as officers armed with AR-15 rifles stood ready to shoot any approaching alligators. An alligator trapper from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission was sent to the scene. By 10 p.m. they had recovered the body.

For 20 years I’ve lived here I’m honestly shocked there’s not more obscure death murders or weird shit going on in these neck of the woods. I mean don’t get me wrong every now and then this place gets some sort of thing that spreads through the neighborhoods. When I first moved here it was that it was built on top of an Indian Burial Ground so ghost and spirits would come up and swallow our souls or something. Believable when its quiet in the dead of night and a random horse or cow makes loud noises when it should be asleep. A few years after that story came, there was a story of a murder where the father in law blew the head off of his girls husband. After that though, nothing. I mean we’re talking about a place with multi millionaire old guys with loads of gated private land and away from the busy public. Its perfect area for weird crimes. I need more stories like this coming up so I can go poking my noise into the dark corners of Southwest Ranches that some people aren’t willing to look. I mean yea this could be some canal fisherman who fucked up and slipped into bog water infested with gators, but I’d like to think it was crime related that leads to some seedy dark underground cult ring. Guess a guy can dream but since nothing’s confirmed about the dead guy then I’m gonna assume the latter. Sure it seems nice here, but in reality, you’re in Carcosa now.