'We can't classify the death as accidental, or homicide or suicide or due to natural causes,' said Steve Cory, an investigator for the medical examiner's office. Investigators were unable to determine if the man was dead or alive when the shark swallowed part of him anytime between a day ago and four days ago. The limbs are believed to be those of a white male in his early 20s, weighing about 190 pounds, and between 5 feet 11 inches and 6 feet tall, according to Wright. Ronald Wright performed an autopsy on the body parts, seaching for clues about the victim's identity. The tiger shark was transported to the medical examiner's office. The baffled fishermen immediately called Hollywood police, who then notified the Broward Medical Examiner's Office. The fight over, they returned to shore and proceeded to slice open the shark's belly. The fishermen reeled in the man-eating shark after a tiring two-hour struggle. 'But I guess I always had it in my mind that I could come up with something like that.' 'I suppose you could say I was shocked,' said Laurino, a charter boat owner from Davie. There was also a thigh portion of the left leg. The right leg had on a sock and an Adidas tennis shoe. surpassed even their wildest imaginings: A 364-pound, nine-foot, five-inch tiger shark with a pair of human legs inside it.

'He was probably dead before he was eaten by the shark, since tiger sharks are scavengers.'Д¬ory was only one of several speakers to visit Manning`s civics classes over the last several weeks.ДЄl Laurino and Bobby Colville went on an all-night shark- fishing expedition Friday night 1 1/2 miles off Hollywood Beach. 'Either (the victim) fell off a boat or he was pushed,' Cory said, pointing out people don`t swim in sneakers. Students in Kathleen Manning`s class shuddered even more when he explained: A man who caught the shark ripped it open only to find the legs and feet, still in Adidas sneakers, inside. Groans and gasps came from the Pines Middle School students watching. Steve Cory, an investigator for the Broward Medical Examiner`s Office, pulled out a slide picturing a tiger shark and an Adidas sneaker. He states his belief that the unidentified man fell or was pushed off a boat. This was the only part of the article relevant to the case. This was taken from a longer article when investigator Steve Cory gave a presentation about forensics and death investigation at a local middle school. IвЂ™m posting the whole thing here since I had to use my library card to get them. Here are two more articles from the Miami Herald. He may also have been murdered and dumped or something like that, but IвЂ™m just saying that wearing shoes in the water is uncommon enough that I suspect that most people who find themselves doing that might not want or need what is definitely a specialty item. Also consider that his reason for being in/near the water, such as fishing or looking for sea shells or something like that, might not immediately suggest to the person that he needs a special water shoe. ThereвЂ™s so many reasonable innocent explanations that I feel itвЂ™s hard to justify immediately suspecting that it means something. One might also simply be skeptical that a specialty shoe would be preferably to a regular sneaker. IвЂ™m not in anything like difficult straits financially, but I would not purchase a pair of special water shoes if I felt I needed shoes in the water, just because itвЂ™s a specialty item that I know I would rarely use. Especially the further into the past we go, it might not be that likely that someone has a special pair of shoes for going into the water. I donвЂ™t think itвЂ™s necessarily strange to wear sneakers in the water if youвЂ™re going to be wearing shoes at all. If anyone has any thoughts on this, I'd be very interested in hearing them. Given the fact that only a leg and part of a thigh bone were found, I find it really strange that they were able to pull that much information out of the remains.Дoe Network, NAMUS, and Florida database links are below.

The Doe Network profile lists the victim as a male between the ages of 21 and 35, 5'9' to 6'0' tall, and probably weighed about 190 pounds. In spite of the few remains which were found, the medical examiner was able to pull together an unusually specific profile for what the victim may have looked like. Found with it was a size 10 1/2 Adidas high top shoe. The two fishermen soon found the remains of human legs, presumably while gutting the shark, inside of its stomach. In 1982, two fishermen caught a nearly ten foot, 370 pound tiger shark in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Broward County, Florida. I don't usually make posts like this, but the circumstances are so bizarre, and with the fact that I have never heard anyone else bring this case up before, I had to share it with this sub and get your opinions on it.

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