74-year-old missing woman found entangled in Monticello barbed wire fence
MONTICELLO, Ky. (FOX 56) — A 74-year-old woman who was previously reported missing was found trapped in barbed wire on Thursday.
According to the Wayne County Sheriff's Office (WCSO), around 8 a.m. on Thursday, a woman's neighbor reported that she was last seen Wednesday afternoon and had not shown up for dinner.
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Deputies and the Monticello Police Department began searching the area for the woman and the car she was said to be driving.
After pinging her phone to learn its approximate location, the police found that the phone was last recorded in the Nancy area of Pulaski County.
The Pulaski County Sheriff's Office searched through the area, including the national cemetery where the woman's husband was buried, but deputies said they were unable to find her. A Golden Alert was eventually issued for the woman.
Around 4:30 p.m., dispatch in Wayne County received a call from a woman about a car parked behind her house on Spann Hill Water Tower Road after her granddaughter saw the vehicle sitting there.
The woman told dispatch that she could see a woman lying in the field entangled in a barbed wire fence.
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Multiple law enforcement agencies were dispatched to the area. The woman was found alive but injured, and she was quickly taken to the Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital for treatment, according to WCSO.
Her condition is not known at this time.
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