{"id":325546,"date":"2026-05-21T02:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/325546\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T02:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:05:10","slug":"update-police-id-murder-victim-pulled-from-fresno-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/325546\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Police ID murder victim pulled from Fresno canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police on Wednesday identified a deceased woman they found in a Fresno canal earlier in May.<\/p>\n<p>The Fresno Police Department identified the victim as Georgianna McGhee, 50, of Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators have ruled McGhee\u2019s death a homicide, police said in Wednesday\u2019s update.<\/p>\n<p>Officers removed McGhee from the canal near Nielsen and Hughes avenues around 11:45 p.m. May 10. She was pronounced dead at the scene, and investigators at the time considered the death suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information on the case or McGhee\u2019s last known whereabouts can contact the Fresno Police Department at 559-621-7000. They can also anonymously contact Valley Crime Stoppers at 559-498-7867.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the death was the 11th murder of 2026 in Fresno and that at this time last year there been seven.<\/p>\n<p>                                          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/McGhee.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\" title=\"McGhee.jpg\" alt=\"Georgiana McGhee, 50, was found in a Fresno canal on May 10. Police have ruled her death a homicide.\"\/>                                                                                    Georgiana McGhee, 50, was found in a Fresno canal on May 10. Police have ruled her death a homicide.                                                                                                                                                                        Fresno Police Department                                                                                        <\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published May 20, 2026 at 4:19 PM.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fresno Bee<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/profile\/307508201\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777490828_538_IMG_4053.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Nick Fenley\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/profile\/307508201\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Fenley<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Fresno Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Nick Fenley is a reporter covering education, lawsuits, breaking news and more for The Fresno Bee. He\u2019s originally from the Imperial Valley and has been with The Bee since 2025.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police on Wednesday identified a deceased woman they found in a Fresno canal earlier in May. The Fresno&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-325546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}