{"id":285693,"date":"2026-05-09T10:18:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T10:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/285693\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T10:18:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T10:18:17","slug":"police-confirm-missing-woman-found-dead-at-padre-island-national-seashore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/285693\/","title":{"rendered":"Police confirm missing woman found dead at Padre Island National Seashore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>11PM UPDATE: Martinez&#8217; daughter tells KRIS 6 News her mother was from Austin, Texas and no foul play is suspected in her death at this time.<\/p>\n<p>*****<br \/>ORIGINAL:<\/p>\n<p>Corpus Christi Police have identified the body found at the Padre Island National Seashore as that of a woman who was reported missing a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>Angelita Martinez, 40, was last seen by family the evening of Friday, May 1 at Whitecap Beach on Padre Island.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the body of a woman was found in the Padre Island National Seashore.<\/p>\n<p>Corpus Christi Police confirmed on ccpdblotter.com that the body was that of Angelita Martinez.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Rangers are investigating her death with the help of the Corpus Christi Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any information regarding her death, contact the Corpus Christi Police Department at 361-886-2600.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Keep with kristv.com for the latest developments.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest local news updates, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/local-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>, or download the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/about-us\/kris-6-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News App.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch all the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/KRIS6News\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News stories and more on our YouTube page<\/a>. Subscribe today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"11PM UPDATE: Martinez&#8217; daughter tells KRIS 6 News her mother was from Austin, Texas and no foul play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[104824,155,157,156,28209,104947,3873,104823],"class_list":["post-285693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-angelita-martinez","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-missing-woman","tag-missing-woman-found-dead","tag-padre-island","tag-padre-island-national-seashore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}