A Louisiana coroner said this week that human remains were found inside the stomach of a 12-foot-long alligator, from a man who went missing during Hurricane Ida in floodwaters on August 30.
The man's wife, Timothy Satterley, 71, said he was attacked by a crocodile last month outside their home in Slidell, and his wife witnessed the attack herself, according to "NBC News".
Nearly two weeks after the attack, authorities captured the alligator believed to be responsible in Avery Estates near Slidell, a city on Lake Pontchartrain across from New Orleans, according to the Parish St. Tammany Sheriff's Office.
Once the crocodile was caught, last Thursday, the contents of the crocodile's stomach revealed human remains, and St. Tammany's coroner, Dr. Charles Preston, confirmed in a press release that the remains belonged to Satterley.
The coroner's office used DNA samples extracted from the remains of tissues and compared those samples to samples from Satterley's children, and investigators were able to establish an 11-point DNA match with those of Satterley's children.
"For legal purposes, the 16-point sample is the general standard, in which case, given the circumstances, I am satisfied that the 11-point sample confirms that these are Mr. Satterley's remains," Preston said in the statement.
Preston said they also obtained hair and other samples from Satterley's home and will try to make a full DNA match.
Hurricane Ida caused widespread flooding and cut off electricity and phone service in southeastern Louisiana when it made landfall on August 29.
The authorities said that Satterley's wife heard a bang in the water, and as soon as she came out of her house to see the crocodile attacking her husband, she managed to drag her badly injured husband to the stairs of their house.
She used a small boat to get to higher ground for help, but when she and the deputies got home, Satterley was dead.
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