14 DAY TRIAL // A 78-year-old woman from Coweta has been found after being missing for 72 hours. The search of Eleanor Alexander had been called off when she was located.
Christian Post reports that Eleanor Alexander disappeared early on Sunday morning and she was reported missing by her family.
The senior suffers from dementia and reps for Coweta County Sheriff’s office stated that they believed she wandered off into a pond.
“There are a lot of ponds and lakes in the area, and we worried she had fallen or stumbled in to one of them,” said Sheriff’s Lt. Col James Yarbrough.
Another possibility was that she was attacked by a wild animal.
“During the middle of the night, we were concerned about animals getting to her,” Yarbrough added, according to a statement conveyed by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
She was eventually located 300 yards (274 meters) from her home by a volunteer who had brought out her dog. The German shepherd of Gail Higgins from Cedartown was able to find the missing woman.
“It's been three days. This lady's had no food, no water, no nothing,” Higgins said.
The search mission had been called off at 9 p.m. Monday and Alexander turned up alive at 11a.m. on Tuesday. She was unconscious and in serious condition, medical personnel described.
She had been injured after walking into a barbed-wire fence and she had been walking around for days.
“She was not alert, but she was breathing and covered with bug bites. [...] She was in bed clothes and her body temperature was below 80 degrees Fahrenheit (26 C), and she had walked into a barbed-wire fence,” Yarbrough noted.
Alexander has been airlifted to Atlanta Medical Center and she is now stable and awake.
“Since she’s been at Atlanta Medical Center, reports are that her body temperature is up, she’s alert and doing a lot better,” Yarbrough adds.