A 77-year-old woman with dementia from Troy, Illinois was found dead outside a nursing home, after the family says she wandered out of the building at night and apparently froze to death.
Kathleen Kinkel's body was found outside the Aspen Creek nursing home on Tuesday morning — a day that reached a high of 22 degrees. Her niece told KMOX that someone should've noticed she was missing right away. Instead, it took around six hours.
"I mean, I just can't imagine her sustaining sub-freezing temperatures for too long," she said. "I don't know if I have any words. It's unbelievable. It's a family's worst nightmare, that she was supposed to be cared for in a dementia facility and she wasn't."
Autopsy results are pending, but Troy police says there was no evidence of foul play.
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