{"id":330516,"date":"2026-07-06T10:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T10:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330516\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T10:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T10:23:11","slug":"missing-woman-found-dead-inside-suv-at-mcdonalds-near-tampa-hcso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330516\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing woman found dead inside SUV at McDonald&#8217;s near Tampa: HCSO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">UNIVERSITY, Fla. &#8211; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Hillsborough County<\/a> Sheriff&#8217;s Office is investigating after a woman who had been reported missing last week was found dead inside a vehicle in the parking lot of a McDonald&#8217;s near Tampa on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p> McDonald&#8217;s parking lot death investigation   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to HCSO, deputies responded shortly before 7 a.m. to a McDonald&#8217;s in the University area located at 2205 E. Fletcher Ave. Deputies say the restaurant&#8217;s manager called 911 to report an unresponsive person inside a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">When deputies arrived, they found a Volkswagen SUV parked on the north side of the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Inside the SUV, deputies found a dead woman who was identified as Erica Giordano, 36.<\/p>\n<p> Missing woman timeline <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Investigators said Giordano had last been seen by her family on July 2.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Deputies confirmed she had been reported missing before her body was discovered Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to the sheriff&#8217;s office, an initial examination found no obvious signs of trauma or injury.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Detectives have not released a cause or manner of death, and investigators have not said how long the vehicle had been parked at the McDonald&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HCSO said the investigation remains active and updates will be provided if more information is released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was provided by the Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hillsborough County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\/missing-persons\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Missing Persons<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNIVERSITY, Fla. &#8211; The Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is investigating after a woman who had been reported missing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[630,47,629,6888,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-330516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-hillsborough","tag-missing-persons","tag-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330516","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=330516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}