A homicide investigation is underway after a woman was found dead inside a Miami Beach hotel room.
FERNANDO SALAZAR
The Wichita Eagle
A woman was found dead inside a Miami Beach hotel room, and police are investigating it as a homicide.
The body was found Tuesday night inside a room at the Sherry Frontenac Hotel, 6565 Collins Ave., according to Miami Beach police.
Officers went to the North Beach hotel after a woman called shortly before 7 p.m. Tuesday and asked for a welfare check on her coworker, who was last seen Saturday, said police spokesman Ernesto Rodriguez.
“This death is being investigated as a homicide, and detectives are actively following several leads,” Rodriguez said in an email. Police were still at the hotel Wednesday morning.
Police haven’t said how the woman died.
Anyone with information is asked to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS (8477)
Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow. Support my work with a digital subscription
