A Pennsylvania woman who went missing over 30 years ago has surprisingly been found alive.
The case of Patricia Kopta’s disappearance began with a missing persons report filed by her husband Bob with the Ross Township Police Department in 1992.
“I come home one night, and she’s just gone, and nobody knows where she’s at,” Bob told WPXI.
Bob, who reportedly had trouble discussing the long search, said Patricia had mental health obstacles and had discussed wanting to travel to Puerto Rico because she was tired of the cold Pennsylvania climate.
“It’s been going on almost 31 years, and it’s been bad,” he said. “It cost me a lot of money. I even put advertisements down in the paper in Puerto Rico looking for her.”
Incredibly, over three decades after her sudden disappearance, that’s exactly where she was found.
“We were contacted by an agent from Interpol as well as a social worker from Puerto Rico who believed they had her in an adult care home in Puerto Rico,” Ross Township Police Deputy Chief Brian Kohlhepp told WPXI. “They reported to us that she came into their care in 1999 where she was found in need in the streets of Puerto Rico, where she had been wandering around. While there she refused to discuss her private life.”
However, in recent years Patricia Kopta has developed dementia and made a few comments that ultimately helped officials determine where she came from, and eventually a DNA sample confirmed her identity and unexpectedly closed a cold case with a happy ending.
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