Woman Froze to Death Inside Dollar Tree Store in Miami, Autopsy Report Shows

Doctor Found Dead in Store Freezer: A Tragic Mystery Unfolds

The fluorescent lights inside a discount store in Little Havana are not supposed to illuminate tragedy. They flicker over plastic storage boxes and seasonal tinsel, over bargain sweets and paper plates. They hum, they glare, they make everything feel mundane. But behind one staff-only door, in the hard, mechanical cold of a walk-in freezer, something happened that still refuses to feel real. In December, employees at a branch of Dollar Tree open…

Cause of Death Revealed for Florida Woman Found Dead in Dollar Tree Freezer

Officials say the Florida woman found inside a Dollar Tree freezer died from environmental hypothermia, with alcohol listed as a contributing factor.

Woman found dead inside Dollar Tree freezer had alcohol in her system, autopsy says - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports

Newly released autopsy has revealed alcohol may have played a factor in a tragedy at a store late last year. Miami-Dade Medical Examiner officials said the cause of the death for 32-year-old Helen Massiell Garay Sanchez was hypothermia with a contributory cause of ethanol, commonly known as alcohol, use. Her body was discovered in the freezer of a Dollar Tree in Little Havana near Southwest Eighth Street and Ninth Court in December. Following he…

Family suing in case of boozed up doctor who wandered into Dollar Tree freezer and died

Family suing in case of allegedly boozed up doctor who wandered into Dollar Tree freezer and died · American Wire News

Alcohol has been cited as a contributing factor in the strange case of a doctor who was found dead in a Miami Dollar Tree freezer. A toxicology report from the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s Office revealed that Dr. Massiell Garay Sanchez “had a blood ethanol level of 0.112%, which would have been above the legal limit to drive, and an ocular fluid ethanol reading of 0.156%,” Local 10 News reported. The 32-year-old anesthesiologist is believed to…

Cause of death revealed for mom of 2 found dead in Dollar Tree freezer

Police previously said there was no indication that mental illness played a role in her death.