Dead gopher tortoise

Today while I was picking up my Sand Skink cover boards, I found the remains of a Gopher Tortoise in the northwest corner of the South Tract. Hard to figure out what happened. The shell wasn't hacked through, it still had all of its fingers and toes and its head. There was a burrow nearby in the fence line that could have been dug by a small tortoise. This is very mysterious. After not having seen live tortoises here during the first four years, I have seen one live tortoise and one dead tortoise, all within about 100 meters of each other. The only other sighting was a tortoise that had been killed and the carcass dumped on the property. The only other Chelonian was a young snapping turtle. This is very odd.