Who is Heather Rose Strickland? Bikini-clad body found stuffed in trash bag by fishermen is identified

Who is Heather Rose Strickland? Bikini-clad body found stuffed in trash bag by fishermen is identified
Heather Rose Strickland seen left in an FBI handout, and the last picture of her (right) posted on her Facebook. (Pics: [email protected], Facebook)

TAMPA, FLORIDA: Law enforcement officials have identified the mystery woman whose bikini-clad body was found stuffed in a trash bag by a group of spearfishermen off Florida's Gulf Coast as 34-year-old Heather Rose Strickland. On Saturday, December 10, around 12.40 pm, Strickland's body was found wrapped in bedding and a plastic trash bag floating 13 miles off the coast of Egmont Key at the mouth of Tampa Bay. She was last seen on December 5 leaving HCA Florida Largo Hospital located on 14th Street Southwest. 

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The gruesome discovery was made by a group of spearfishermen after they cut open the bag and saw the woman's corpse. The fishermen, however, could only make out that it was a human dead body that had some type of bra strap or bikini strap attached to it. It is not clear why she was in the hospital or if any of her loved ones were looking for her, as per Daily Mail.