{"id":234096,"date":"2026-04-16T11:08:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/234096\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:08:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:08:23","slug":"florida-fisherman-found-dead-body-of-missing-man-75-recovered-at-orlando-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/234096\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida fisherman found dead: Body of missing man, 75, recovered at Orlando park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">ORLANDO, Fla. &#8211; Authorities are conducting an investigation after a fisherman was found dead at an Orlando park.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s office located a 75-year-old man, who was reported missing after his family said he didn&#8217;t return from a fishing trip.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Deputies with the Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s office responded to Barnett Park on West Colonial Drive just before 9 a.m., April 15, after a family reported a missing person. The family of Willie Lewis, 75, said Lewis didn&#8217;t come home from a fishing trip.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/barnett-park-1.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">A photo of Barnett Park in Orange County, FL. <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">After searching the area, the sheriff&#8217;s office&#8217;s marine and dive units recovered Lewis&#8217; body, deputies reported Wednesday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Lewis&#8217; cause of death is not known at this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story was gathered from the Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/orange-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orange County News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. &#8211; Authorities are conducting an investigation after a fisherman was found dead at an Orlando park.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[630,47,115,1335,139,141,140,628],"class_list":["post-234096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}