Newlywed Found Dead on Beach Was Buried Alive

The Texas woman found buried on a Maryland beach Monday met with what was apparently a fatal stroke of bad luck. 

Ocean City police say Ashley O'Connor suffocated in a deep hole that apparently collapsed or was otherwise filled with sand sometime after 2am Monday. "We don't think there were any suspicious circumstances," Lindsay Richard of the Ocean City Police Department tells NBC DFW. Richard says the 30-year-old newlywed likely fell or climbed into the hole after she was seen walking on the beach alone.

Richard adds it "hasn't been determined" whether tractors used to sift and clean the sand overnight may have mistakenly covered the hole while O'Connor was inside, as some on social media have suggested, per the Delmarva Daily Times.

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