a local fisherman believes that trophy killings by tourists were behind the horrific mutilation and death of two large saltwater crocodiles at dundee beach in the northern territory on wednesday the nt times reported that darwin man jake hinton, 27, found the dead crocodiles while driving with his parents to go on a family fishing trip hinton's father found the first one on the ground in the run off from a little creek it was missing a head and half skinned, but did not appear to have any bullet holes one crocodile had been there for a while it was bloated and rotting  tone of the crocodiles was missing a head and half skinned on the ground  the second crocodile was found by hinton about 200m from the mouth of the finniss river 'i could smell this one before we saw it, it had been there for a while and was bloated,' he told the nt times 'this one had nothing removed from it and there was an obvious bullet wound in its skull, which is probably why they didn’t take it the second crocodile was found about 200m from the mouth of the finniss river  'i think it’s just senseless joy killing by idiot tourists looking for a trophy' a spokeswoman for the parks and wildlife commission said the department was investigating the incidents the authority had 10 reports of crocodiles being slaughtered illegally in the nt over the past year the headless crocodile was found in the run off from a little creek 
darwin jake hinton 27 the finniss river parks and wildlife commission the past year
darwin man jake hinton, 27, found the dead crocodiles while out driving . one crocodile was missing a head and half skinned . the other was bloated and about 200m from the mouth of the finniss river . parks and wildlife commission was investigating the incidents . 10 crocodiles were slaughtered illegally in the nt over the past year 