Found Safe CA - Doris Doss, 84, Hawthorne, 1 Feb 2018

[JerseyGirl]

Doss was last seen Thursday at a credit union near 120th Street and Crenshaw Boulevard where she emptied her bank account. Family members said they noticed Doss’ disappearance when she failed to catch a ride home from a hospital in Willowbrook.

Doss, who is black, was last seen wearing blue jeans, black shoes, a black and white animal print shirt, and a red sweater.

https://www.dailynews.com/2018/02/07/missing-woman-84-last-seen-emptying-bank-account-in-hawthorne/

 

[LaborDayRN]

Doss was last seen Thursday at a credit union near 120th Street and Crenshaw Boulevard where she emptied her bank account. Family members said they noticed Doss’ disappearance when she failed to catch a ride home from a hospital in Willowbrook.

Doss, who is black, was last seen wearing blue jeans, black shoes, a black and white animal print shirt, and a red sweater.

https://www.dailynews.com/2018/02/07/missing-woman-84-last-seen-emptying-bank-account-in-hawthorne/

Two questions from me. Why would she empty her bank account? And why was an 84 year old left to "catch a ride" home from the hospital? I worried that who ever she caught the ride with (a stranger?) may have helped her empty her bank acount.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Her daughter said:

"I talked to one of the workers in the bank and they told me she came in on the first and then the third of the month. I asked if she was by herself or with someone and he told me he wasn’t really paying that much attention."

Doss is a mother of 8.

Family took notice of the woman’s disappearance after she failed to catch a ride home from a hospital in Willowbrook. They believe she walked away.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/...ng-Hawthorne-South-Los-Angeles-473089913.html

 

[LaborDayRN]

Her daughter said:

"I talked to one of the workers in the bank and they told me she came in on the first and then the third of the month. I asked if she was by herself or with someone and he told me he wasn’t really paying that much attention."

Doss is a mother of 8.

Family took notice of the woman’s disappearance after she failed to catch a ride home from a hospital in Willowbrook. They believe she walked away.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/...ng-Hawthorne-South-Los-Angeles-473089913.html

Gotcha. I would like to think that the bank would review their video from that day to see if she may have been with someone. I see she has dementia. I hope they find her soon. They must be worried sick!

Loved ones of 84-year-old Doris Doss are desperately trying to find the dementia patient after she went missing Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018 in Hawthorne.
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/...ng-Hawthorne-South-Los-Angeles-473089913.html

 

[crhedBngr]

This case is in my area.. I will keep my eyes open for her.

JerseyGirl: Thanks for starting this thread. I was just reading the Daily Breeze article about Doris, and then remembered that a thread had been started for her.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/84-Year-Old-Dementia-Patient-Critically-Missing-Hawthorne-South-Los-Angeles-473089913.html

According to the video clip in the article I've enclosed above, she left her cell phone at the hospital.

This is very, very disconcerting. I, too, wonder if she had "help" per se emptying her bank account.

 

[LotsaLatte]

This is so scary. My mom had dementia and I am sure that if she could have gotten to a bank, she would have withdrawn all her money and who knows what she would have done with it. She just got to the point where she was fixated on her money and worried about it all the time. I hope Ms. Doss is found safe. Her family must be worried sick. I really hope that the bank allows LE to review the video they must have and hopefully, area businesses have video as well.

 

[JerseyGirl]

That morning, she had gone to the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in Willowbrook for blood pressure tests. But she disappeared later that afternoon after returning to her son's home in the 11200 block of South Broadway in South L.A.

Doss, a retired day care worker, was being cared for in turns but her eight children as she struggles with dementia.

There was no trace of her until three days later, when a Wescom bank employee recognized her photo from missing person flyers and alerted her family.

Doss has history of wandering away but usually comes home within a few hours.

http://ktla.com/2018/02/07/family-s...awthorne-withdrawing-funds-from-bank-account/

Doris Doss is also known as Peggy to her family and friends.

http://abc7.com/lakewood-family-asks-for-publics-help-to-find-missing-grandma/3051146/

 

[GigTu]

So if she voluntary left and withdrew her money without coercion, is it presumed she's walking around with a bag of cash?

I hope they really get her picture circulated. An old lady paying with cash would stand out.

Maybe she is holed up in a hotel. I hope so anyway.

 

[swanniee11]

her FB https://www.facebook.com/doris.doss.773?lst=1189913669:100009173825220:1518104930

 

[GigTu]

Her relatives have said she was found safe, but MSM hasn't updated their stories yet. :loveyou: I'll keep an eye out for a media update.

 

[GigTu]

FOUND! :happydance:

http://ktla.com/2018/02/07/family-s...awthorne-withdrawing-funds-from-bank-account/

Update: Doris Lee Doss was found after walking into a police station, the Los Angeles Police Department said Thursday. She was in good condition.