{"id":286231,"date":"2026-05-09T21:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/286231\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T21:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:52:09","slug":"missing-woman-found-dead-on-padre-island-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/286231\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing woman found dead on Padre Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 40-year-old woman reported missing on Padre Island Monday was found dead two days later at Padre Island National Seashore, Corpus Christi police said.<\/p>\n<p>Family members said Angelita Martinez, 40, had been missing since May 1. She was last seen walking near\u00a0Winward Drive on Padre Island wearing a grey shirt and dark sweatpants, the Corpus Christi Police Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1DEvofN4aA\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said in a news release<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Martinez\u2019s family reported her missing on Monday. Two days later, Martinez was found dead at Padre Island National Seashore in\u00a0Kleberg County, police said in an update.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Rangers are investigating the death. Corpus Christi police are helping with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about Martinez\u2019s death should contact the Corpus Christi Police Department at 361-886-2600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 40-year-old woman reported missing on Padre Island Monday was found dead two days later at Padre Island&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-286231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286231","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=286231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}