The death of Ashley O’Connor on an Ocean City beach has been ruled an accident.
The Salisbury Daily Times reports that the Ocean City Police Department said that she was apparently suffocated in a hole as the sand closed in on her.
However, authorities say they do not know how she fell into it.
O’Connor was 30 years old from Texas and had been vacationing with her parents when they became separated.
A resort official said that she had not been missing long before her body was found.