Don't forget also that the American Crocodile, once on the brink, has made a big comeback in the past 20 years...especially in Southern Florida....and those suckers are more aggressive and can be bigger than gators....
We started out talking about why Nowak didn't do the deed in Houston, while Shipman was there - and how to dispose of the body somewhere around JSC.
I don't know much about gators around Orlando or the Cape - but you have the Atlantic and some rivers there - and that long lonely stretch of highway out to the Cape. Are there crocs around there?