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失踪30多年，女子在几百公里外的养老院被找到
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Patricia Kopta, 83, was last seen in the summer of 1992. Her husband, Bob Kopta, reported her missing a few months later in the fall. At the time, he told the police that it wasn’t uncommon for his wife to “drop out of sight for short periods.”
Police said they were first informed about the discovery of the missing woman when an agent from the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) and a social worker from Puerto Rico contacted them last year saying that they believed Patricia was living in an adult care home in Puerto Rico. “What they reported to us was that she came into their care in 1999, when she was found in need in the streets of Puerto Rico,” the police said, “Patricia was found wandering the streets and through the years she had ‘refused to ever discuss her private life or where she came from.’” In her advanced age, Patricia started revealing clues that would eventually encourage those around her to contact the police.
Police said her disappearance wasn’t suspicious(可疑的) because they “knew she had a mental health history and she had made statements to other family individuals that she was leaving, that she was concerned that she was going to be placed into a care facility here.” She had likely left of her own volition.
Her husband said that his wife had talked about wanting to go to Puerto Rico to live in a tropical environment. “I even advertised in the paper down in Puerto Rico looking for her,” Kopta said, adding that he spent a lot of money over the years searching for her.
Police determined the woman was in fact Patricia through a nine-month-long process in which they compared DNA samples provided by her sister, Gloria Smith, and her nephew.
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