{"id":373091,"date":"2026-10-14T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373091\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T17:35:00","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-queens-woman-found-dead-in-plumb-beach-trash-can-was-strangled-medical-examiner-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373091\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Queens Woman Found Dead In Plumb Beach Trash Can Was Strangled Medical Examiner Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Queens woman who was <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/2026\/09\/18\/body-found-inside-trash-can-in-plumb-beach-parking-lot\/6eoojXxNUCij6XzFkFB18m\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">discovered inside a trash can<\/a> at the Plumb Beach parking lot was strangled, according to the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The medical examiner ruled the death of <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/police-identify-woman-found-dead-inside-garbage-can-in-parking-lot-at-plumb-beach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">38-year-old Tanaya Cambell Ortiz<\/a> a homicide around one month after her body was found.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Detectives say the investigation began at around 3 p.m. on Sept. 16 in the parking lot off the Belt Parkway.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officers discovered Ortiz inside a garbage can, unconscious and unresponsive. Paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A suspect &#8211; and any potential motive in the case &#8211; were not immediately known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Queens woman who was discovered inside a trash can at the Plumb Beach parking lot was strangled,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-373091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}