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The Texas woman who was found being eaten by an alligator is a trust fund divorcee mother of two, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.
The medical examiner in Houston confirmed the deceased woman found in the beast's jaws late last month was 63-year-old Robin Jean Puryear.
Her exact cause of death has not yet been made public by the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences.
It remains unclear if Puryear was killed by the beast or if her remains were found by the reptile after she died.
Puryear had been reported missing by her partner on May 27 and the gator was spotted less than 12 hours later at around 8:40am on May 28, police stated.
The officer who discovered the human remains in the gator's mouth shot the creature dead to prevent it from eating the remainder of her body, which was then recovered by a dive team from the bayou.
Robin Jean Puryear, pictured in 2013 in a jail booking photo above after a DUI arrest in Harris County, Texas. Puryear had three DUI arrests dating back to 1987
Puryear was the mother to a son in 30s and lived in an area of Houston called Clear Lake, not far from where NASA is based.
Her house is less than a mile from where her body was found in the clutches of the predator near Horsepen Bayou.
Described as 'petite and sweet' by neighbors, Puryear stood just 5'2" tall and weighed about 125 pounds.
Puryear had lived at the Clear Lake home since 1991, according to public records, which was purchased alongside her ex-husband. The Puryears divorced in 2011.
Residents in the neighborhood said she would 'keep to herself,' and expressed disbelief over how her body was found.
'It's just a terrible situation and there is just lots of speculation,' a neighbor who did not want to be named told DailyMail.com.
'Maybe this points towards something that people are not even thinking about.'
She explained alligators are a common sight in that neighborhood, and all the residents are well aware they are in the water and often wonder the banks of the bayou.
When Puryear's former spouse died years after the divorce, she and her son inherited part of her ex-husband's company.
She appears to have lived off a trust fund related to her the electrical business and had no other known employment.
The woman, was found dead along the banks of the Horsepen Bayou in Clear Lake Tuesday, less than 12 hours after she went missing. At least a dozen response officers are pictured at the scene
It is unclear at this time if the victim was killed by the alligator (stock photo)
The woman's body was found in the alligator's jaws near Coastal Oak Drive, not far from her Brook Forest Drive home. Officers were pictured at the scene on Tuesday
Puryear had three driving while intoxicated arrests on her record from 1987, 1999, 2013.
In more recent years, neighbors said she lived with a man they knew as her husband - but there are no publicly available records of a second marriage.
He did not return calls from comment.
Since her death, neighbors believe Puryear's partner has abandoned the home, with only her adult son stopping by from time to time.
As questions about Puryear's death remain unanswered, she will be laid to rest on Thursday at Crowder Funeral Home in League City, according to an online obituary.
Meanwhile, her former brother-in-law Ronald Puryear could hardly believe how her remains ended up being eaten by an alligator.
'This is really unbelievable. This sounds like a fantasy,' Ronald said, adding that he hadn't spoken to her or her son in over 10 years due to a family estrangement.
'We had a family disagreement, and the family spilt up. That's about all I feel comfortable saying.'
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