{"id":39761,"date":"2016-04-21T18:46:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T22:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=39761"},"modified":"2016-04-21T18:46:54","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T22:46:54","slug":"missing-womans-family-gathers-at-crime-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/04\/missing-womans-family-gathers-at-crime-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Woman&#8217;s Family Gathers At Crime Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_39762\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39762\" style=\"width: 244px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39762\" title=\"Alberta Harris\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Alberta-Harris-244x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Alberta-Harris-244x300.png 244w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Alberta-Harris.png 414w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39762\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alberta Harris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>FDLE agents established an &#8220;active crime scene&#8221; near Wheeler Road and 14th Place in a rural area of Hendry County &#8212; just across the border from Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators gathered in a wooded area down a dirt road. Neighbors said it&#8217;s frequented by four-wheelers and other off-road vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>A Hendry County Sheriff&#8217;s Office squad car guarded the entrance to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Several family members of Alberta Harris, the Fort Myers woman missing since earlier this month, arrived around 1:30 p.m. and stayed for about two hours.<\/p>\n<p>They said authorities told them it&#8217;s possible a body found was that of Harris, and also said they were near the same location Saturday and saw buzzards circling the area, but didn&#8217;t go far enough into the woods to search. Teenagers discovered the body on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Harris, 50, was last seen April 9.<\/p>\n<p>She was reported missing two days later when she didn&#8217;t show up to work as a bus driver for the Lee County School District.<\/p>\n<p>Her vehicle, a silver 2005 GMC Yukon, was found in the Fleamasters parking lot on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard on April 11. Police said a window was smashed and Harris&#8217; niece said there was blood inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FDLE agents established an &#8220;active crime scene&#8221; near Wheeler Road and 14th Place in a rural area of Hendry County &#8212; just across the border from Lehigh Acres. Investigators gathered&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":39762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}