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Default Jet skier decapitated in Florida

http://www.nbc-2.com/articles/readar...d=12910&z=3&p=

FORT MYERS BEACH: A woman walking her dog found the head of Roy Brown,
who was decapitated while riding a personal watercraft Sunday evening.
His body was found by an off duty Lee County deputy a short time
later.

The woman discovered his head in the mangroves south of the Matanzas
Pass Bridge

Investigators are pointing the finger at a line connected to an
abandoned sailboat as the cause. The find may put some closure on
Brown's death investigation.

The line extending from the sailboat had blood on it that was
positively identified as Brown's.

Officials with Florida Fish and Wildlife say it helps put an end to a
rare kind of investigation.

"He actually went right through the line," said Joanne Adams of FWC.
"We do have people hit bridges and low clearances, but this is a quite
unusual event."

The death investigation is almost complete, but the coroner still has
to do some further analysis on the body.