Patricia Kopta vanished suddenly from the streets of Pittsburgh in 1992 at age 52 —stumping her husband, siblings and law enforcement, which eventually declared her dead.
A Pennsylvania “street preacher” who mysteriously disappeared more than three decades ago was found alive in a nursing home in Puerto Rico, authorities and her family said Friday.“We really thought she was dead all those years.”
Kopta vanished suddenly from the streets of Pittsburgh in 1992 at age 52 — stumping her husband, siblings and law enforcement, which eventually declared her dead. She eventually checked into an adult care center in 1999, at first telling workers she’d come to Puerto Rico on a cruise ship from Europe, Ross Township Deputy Police Chief Brian Kohlhepp told
But as she began to suffer from dementia, she let some details of her life slip to a social worker, who got in touch with an Interpol officer.That officer contacted Kohlhepp and the missing gal’s identity was later confirmed through a DNA sample. After months, police notified her husband, Bob, that his long lost wife had been found nearly 2,000 miles away.a police press conference“It’s been going on almost 31 years and it’s been bad. It cost me a lot of money.
He said she was local street preacher nicknamed Patty and known as “The Sparrow,” who often hung around the city outside.“It was hard on all of us because my mother, her [other] sister and myself worried about her constantly,” she said.“We’re so happy and I hope I can get down to see her,” she said.
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