Crime

She was found stabbed inside her South Beach apartment. Police are looking for tips

After a nearly three-month investigation into the fatal stabbing of a 38-year-old woman inside her South Beach apartment, police say they are out of leads and are asking for help.

Aubrey Figg was found dead with a knife wound to her neck inside her bedroom one June 3, according to Miami Beach police. She was found a day before her expected flight to Indiana, where her aunt lives, friends and family told the Miami Herald at the time.

Her husband returned from work and found her “unresponsive” on the floor next to the bed around 9:40 p.m., police said. Their apartment is near Collins Avenue and Second Street.

Neighbors told detectives they saw Figg’s husband leave the apartment screaming and asking for help. “My wife is dead, call the police, Aubrey is dead!” he said, according to an incident report. One of the neighbors called 911.

Her death was ruled a homicide by the Miami-Dade County’s Medical Examiner’s Office.

Detectives say they have interviewed potential witnesses and those who knew Figg, but haven’t been able to make an arrest yet.

Anyone with information that can help detectives arrest Figg’s murderer is asked to contact Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS.

This story was originally published August 27, 2020 at 3:27 PM.

Michelle Marchante
Miami Herald
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
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