Patricia Kopta disappeared in Pennsylvania in 1992 and was later declared dead, but Ross Township police said last week she was found alive in Puerto Rico.
A social worker gathered enough information that she relayed to authorities in Ross Township, where she was a street preacher known as"The Sparrow, a model and dance instructor.Patricia Kopta, now 83, who was declared legally dead in the late 1990s after disappearing in Pennsylvania, was found alive in Puerto Rico in 2023.
Smith said her sister quit her job at the glass company after 10 years because of migraines that doctors blamed on stress. She then got a job as an elevator operator at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh.That’s when family members noticed a change in her behavior."She said something about seeing an angel there," Smith recalled.
Kopta was briefly institutionalized after doctors diagnosed her with"delusions of grandeur" and said she had signs of schizophrenia. Upon her release, she kept preaching until she vanished in 1992.
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