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A Rio de Janeiro drug gang used alligators to terrify residents of the slum they ran, and possibly even to make the bodies of murdered rivals “disappear,” police said.
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Rick Cleveland pulls a male Albino American alligator from its travel enclosure at the California Academy of Sciences new facility at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008. A pair of American Alligators were driven over 2,800 miles...
