{"id":83680,"date":"2025-12-15T07:39:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T07:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/83680\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T07:39:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T07:39:19","slug":"police-identify-woman-whose-body-was-found-in-a-miami-dollar-tree-freezer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/83680\/","title":{"rendered":"Police identify woman whose body was found in a Miami Dollar Tree freezer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Just before a Dollar Tree opened Sunday morning, a woman\u2019s body was found in a store freezer, Miami police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers got to the discount store, 968 SW Eighth St. in Little Havana, around 8 a.m. after an employee found the woman later identified by police as 32-year-old Helen Massiell Garay Sanchez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As of Sunday afternoon, \u201cIt\u2019s an Unclassified Death,\u201d Miami police officer Michael Vega wrote in an email, but \u201cwe have to wait for the medical examiner\u2019s report.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Crime scene tape and a Miami police car are in front of the Dollar Tree store at 968 SW Eighth St. in Little Havana on Sunday morning, Dec. 14, 2025. A woman\u2019s body was found in the freezer Sunday morning, police say.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/455f7b18aad5c88ba6a1b71aaf1af51b.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Crime scene tape and a Miami police car are in front of the Dollar Tree store at 968 SW Eighth St. in Little Havana on Sunday morning, Dec. 14, 2025. A woman\u2019s body was found in the freezer Sunday morning, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Goodwill store next door to the Dollar Tree and the Taco Bell just east did their usual Sunday business. Across Southwest Eighth Street, Little Havana residents recorded police officers and investigating detectives going in and out of the Dollar Tree.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"One of the freezers inside the Dollar Tree store in Little Havana where a woman\u2019s body was found on Sunday morning, Dec. 14, 2025. \" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"1136\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/92a6ae8848e4a648ad66a0d5a07117bd.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>One of the freezers inside the Dollar Tree store in Little Havana where a woman\u2019s body was found on Sunday morning, Dec. 14, 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sanchez\u2019s grieving family members consoled each other behind crime scene tape in front of the Goodwill store. Once they came from behind the tape, they politely declined to speak with media before leaving once the woman\u2019s body was removed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The store, which normally opens at 8 a.m., opened shortly after 1 p.m. as crowds stood on the sidewalk chatting amongst each other, waiting to get in. A manager greeted customers as they came in, saying, \u201cHello\u201d to all, not something normally done at the store.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a breaking news story and will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just before a Dollar Tree opened Sunday morning, a woman\u2019s body was found in a store freezer, Miami&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[46175,46019,123,125,124,8166,8181,16857],"class_list":{"0":"post-83680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-discount-store","9":"tag-dollar-tree","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-headlines","12":"tag-miami-news","13":"tag-miami-police","14":"tag-police-officers","15":"tag-sunday-morning"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83680","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=83680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}