Body found wrapped in trash bag, floating off Florida coast identified as 34-year-old woman - WESH 2 Orlando

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. —

The FBI has identified the pistillate whose assemblage was recovered floating disconnected of Egmont Key Saturday.

In a Friday quality release, the FBI said the unfortunate was Heather Rose Strickland, 34, a nonmigratory of the Clearwater-St. Petersburg area.

Officials said fishermen recovered Strickland’s assemblage floating 13 miles disconnected the seashore of Pinellas County conscionable earlier noon Saturday.

Her assemblage was recovered wrapped successful bedding and a integrative trash bag, according to the FBI.

Investigators said Strickland was past connected Dec. 5 seen leaving HCA Florida Largo Hospital astatine 201 14th Street Southwest.

At this time, authorities are awaiting a toxicology study to find Strickland’s origin of death. Investigators person classified the concern arsenic a “suspicious death,” arsenic of this report.

The FBI said the 34-year-old was primitively from northbound Florida earlier spending the past 5 years successful the Tampa Bay area.

If you cognize thing related to Strickland’s death, telephone FBI Tampa Field Office astatine 813-253-1000 oregon nonstop a extremity to tips.fbi.gov.