{"id":330893,"date":"2026-07-06T17:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T17:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330893\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T17:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T17:24:07","slug":"missing-woman-found-dead-at-mcdonalds-parking-lot-in-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330893\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing woman found dead at McDonald\u2019s parking lot in Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 Deputies are investigating after a missing woman was found dead in a vehicle Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office, the manager of a McDonald\u2019s on East Fletcher Avenue called 911 at 6:57 a.m. regarding an unresponsive person inside a vehicle in the parking lot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Deputies arrived on scene and found a black Volkswagen Tiguan parked on the north side of the property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A woman, identified as Erica Giordano, 36, was found dead inside the vehicle. Deputies said there were no obvious signs of trauma or injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Giordano\u2019s family last saw her on Thursday, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is an active investigation. Deputies did not release additional information on the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 Deputies are investigating after a missing woman was found dead in a vehicle Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1071,18311,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-330893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-deputies","tag-hillsborough-county-sheriffs-office","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330893","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=330893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}