{"id":285764,"date":"2026-05-09T11:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T11:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/285764\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T11:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T11:43:09","slug":"authorities-identify-body-found-on-padre-island-national-seashore-as-missing-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/285764\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities identify body found on Padre Island National Seashore as missing woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 40-year-old woman who was reported missing on Padre Island has been found dead, according to the Corpus Christi Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said Angelita Martinez was found dead on May 6. The Texas Rangers are actively investigating the cause of her death alongside CCPD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Martinez had been reported missing after she was last seen May 1 near Windward Drive on Padre Island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No additional information has been released.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Stay with 3NEWS for updates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">More from 3NEWS on KIIITV.com: <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@KIIITV\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Subscribe to our YouTube channel;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;Subscribe to our YouTube channel&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Subscribe to our YouTube channel<\/a> for your daily news and exclusive extended interviews.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a news tip? Tell 3!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/mailto:tell3@kiiitv.com\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:tell3@kiiitv.com;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;tell3@kiiitv.com&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tell3@kiiitv.com<\/a> so we can get in touch with you about your story should we have questions or need more information. We realize some stories are sensitive in nature. Let us know if you&#8217;d like to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 40-year-old woman who was reported missing on Padre Island has been found dead, according to the Corpus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[104824,155,157,156,2615,3873,429],"class_list":["post-285764","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-corpus-christi-police-department","tag-padre-island","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285764","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=285764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}