An elderly at-risk woman reported missing earlier this month was found dead Tuesday morning in Santa Barbara County, officials announced.
On July 14, California Highway Patrol issued a Silver Alert for 85-year-old Sonia Lang Crestfield at the request of the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office.
The 85-year-old, who was believed to have been walking when she disappeared, had last been seen on July 11 around 6647 El Colegio Road in Isla Vista near Friendship Manor, a nonprofit retirement community in Santa Barbara County, where she lived, according to multiple media reports.
Officials said she’d last been seen wearing a black sweater, blue jeans, black shoes and white gloves.
It’s unclear exactly when she was reported missing, though authorities said she had not been in contact with anyone for several days and that she may have been confused or disoriented because of issues with dementia, the Santa Barbara County news outlet Noozhawk reported.
The 85-year-old’s body was found just after 11 a.m. Tuesday around Goleta Slough, a wetlands area approximately two and a half miles from where she’d last been seen, according to a news release from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office.
While sheriff’s detectives are investigating the cause and manner of Crestfield’s death, they do not believe it is suspicious in nature.
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