Police: Girl vanishes off Dania Beach, washes ashore lifeless in Hollywood Beach

DANIA BEACH, Fla. — A lady was snorkeling or diving within the ocean off Dania Beach when she vanished and later washed ashore lifeless at Hollywood Beach, based on the Hollywood Police Department.

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The girl was swimming on Wednesday within the space of Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park at 6503 North Ocean Drive, based on Deanna Bettineschi, a spokeswoman for the HPD.

“Detectives have identified the female and are working to make next of kin notifications,” Bettineschi wrote in a press release on Thursday afternoon.

Hollywood law enforcement officials responded to a 911 name at about 8 p.m. on Wednesday after witnesses noticed the physique, east of the North Boardwalk and south of the Hollywood North Beach Park.

“We saw two fishermen and then what looked like a body on the beach … We saw them drag her up … it was disheartening,” Gianluca Fiore, a witness, instructed Local 10 News on Thursday morning.

There had been Hollywood law enforcement officials on and off the seaside late into the evening, close to North Surf Road, between New Mexico and Thomas streets.

The Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office was conducting an post-mortem. Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation investigators labored with Hollywood detectives, and their investigation was ongoing on Thursday afternoon, based on Bettineschi.

Detectives requested anybody with details about the case to name 954-764-4357 or 954-967-4567, or Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477 to stay nameless.

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