Hillsborough County<\/a> Sheriff’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’s near Tampa on Sunday morning.<\/p>\nMcDonald’s parking lot death investigation<\/p>\n
What we know<\/p>\n
According to HCSO, deputies responded shortly before 7 a.m. to a McDonald’s in the University area located at 2205 E. Fletcher Ave. Deputies say the restaurant’s manager called 911 to report an unresponsive person inside a vehicle.<\/p>\n
When deputies arrived, they found a Volkswagen SUV parked on the north side of the restaurant.<\/p>\n
Inside the SUV, deputies found a dead woman who was identified as Erica Giordano, 36.<\/p>\n
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Dig deeper<\/p>\n
Investigators said Giordano had last been seen by her family on July 2.<\/p>\n
Deputies confirmed she had been reported missing before her body was discovered Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
According to the sheriff’s office, an initial examination found no obvious signs of trauma or injury.<\/p>\n
What we don’t know<\/p>\n
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’s.<\/p>\n
What’s next<\/p>\n
HCSO said the investigation remains active and updates will be provided if more information is released.<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
Information for this story was provided by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office began an investigation after a missing 36-year-old woman was found dead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4424,26571,123647,16857,135,137,136,136586],"class_list":["post-330810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-death-investigation","tag-hcso","tag-mcdonald39s","tag-sunday-morning","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-volkswagen-suv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330810","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=330810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}