Pasco Man Admits To Finding Missing Woman Dead, But Where's The Body?

PORT RICHEY, FL — Pasco County sheriff's detectives are searching for the body of a 32-year-old Port Richey woman who was reported missing last month. They say they've arrested a 39-year-old man who told detectives he found her dead and threw her body in a dumpster.

However, detectives have yet to come up with a body.

Detectives say the missing woman, Alyssa Ciccarelli, left the Holiday Hotel at 2337 U.S. 19 in Holiday on April 17 to meet Scott Preston Quinn of Desert Peace Avenue in Land O' Lakes to sell him drugs. She hasn't been seen since.

Her family reported her missing on April 23.

When initially interviewed, Quinn told detectives that he met with Ciccarelli at Embassy Food & Gas at 6618 Embassy Blvd. in Port Richey to purchase drugs from her but he said she got into a dark-colored car with a man and woman inside and left the convenience store after their drug deal.

Surveillance footage from the store verified Ciccarelli's presence there. She can be seen at 3:54 p.m. wearing black and white Champion slides and carrying a blue purse with tassels on it.

During later questioning, Quinn changed his story, telling detectives he lied because he was scared and didn't know what to do.

He said he and Ciccarelli injected fentanyl together in the woods near 10015 Cherry Lake Lane in Port Richey that night, near the home of Quinn's sister. While there, Quinn said Ciccarelli "nodded out" so he left her there.

On Tuesday, detectives searched those woods and found a blue Dooney & Bourke tasseled purse and black and white Champion slides.

The following day, detectives interviewed Quinn again, and he admitted to taking Ciccarrelli's purse after she "nodded out," stealing her money, three or four cell phones, a Michael Kors backpack and drugs.

He said he returned to the woods on April 18 at 2 a.m. and found Ciccarelli dead. Instead of notifying law enforcement, he said he he dragged her body to a dumpster behind the Embassy Food & Gas.

He said he then took her slides and purse and concealed them in the woods behind his sister's home. After realizing the phones were password-protected, he threw them in a dumpster near Carrabba's at 11010 U.S. 19 and Graphic Drive in Port Richey.

Based on his confession, Quinn was arrested and charged with tampering with physical evidence, false verification of ownership, dealing in stolen property, false information to law enforcement during a missing persons investigation and grand theft.

However, detectives have not recovered Ciccarelli's body.

Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff's office at 1-800-706-2488 or report tips online here.