Found Deceased GA - Shirley Obert, 67, involved in single car accident, Monroe County, 29 March 2025

[mlhenn]

'It's one of the strangest cases I've ever seen'

Monroe County Sheriff Brad Freeman said the case of a 67-year-old Culloden woman missing after wrecking on the way to work early Saturday morning, March 29 is one of the

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Search intensifies in Monroe County for missing 67-year-old after accident, sheriff's office says

The Sheriff's Office is looking for a 67-year-old woman who was involved in a car accident Saturday morning. She left the scene, and they're not sure why.

www.13wmaz.com

According to a post on Facebook, deputies are looking for Shirley Obert, 67, who was involved in a car accident on Saturday.

According to Anna Watkins, the sheriff's office isn't exactly sure why she left, but they believe she may have been distressed. Watkins could not confirm why.

The sheriff's office said Obert was last seen wearing a reddish shirt and black pants


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She was in a single car accident. Airbags were deployed. She called her husband after the wreck. He immediately went looking for her but could not locate her.

 

[mlhenn]

Cody Alcorn

3/30 UPDATE from Monroe County Sheriff's Office, Georgia | The Monroe County Sheriff's Office has located Mrs. Shirley Obert. It is not the outcome that we were hoping for. She was found...

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[truthfinder2019]

Oxford Rd & Abercrombie Rd

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It is reported that the accident occurred at Oxford & Abercombie rd in Monroe County, see google map linked above.

Forested area, with a pond not that far. Could someone have given her a lift ?
Who saw her last?

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[truthfinder2019]

This is her FB with more photos

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https://www.facebook.com/100068821976245/posts/pfbid02cfKY3BkyU9PmRpFzguYnGJSqyj6pQXZQqCPauJ2f1KapS6m5ZpN2cDLL2tfpYnEml

 

[swanniee11]

Any chance someone drove by and picked her up, dropped her off somewhere?

 

[truthfinder2019]

Any chance someone drove by and picked her up, dropped her off somewhere?

I was thinking the same. IMO she left walking towards her house to meet up with her husband whom she had called for help. Their residence is not far away according to public information, maybe 5mins drive, so why would have she wandered in the woods. Another car may have picked her up, but where is she ?

 

[Bernie54]

Unfortunately, she was found deceased according to this news story. Such incredibly sad news…

Body of missing Monroe County woman found in well

In a tragic turn of events, Monroe County deputies found the body of a woman who went missing after a car crash on Saturday at the bottom of a well.

www.fox5atlanta.com

 

[Leilei]

Unfortunately, she was found deceased according to this news story. Such incredibly sad news…

Body of missing Monroe County woman found in well

In a tragic turn of events, Monroe County deputies found the body of a woman who went missing after a car crash on Saturday at the bottom of a well.

www.fox5atlanta.com

Found in a well, after a one vehicle accident, sounds strange to me.
She may have been disoriented and fell in, but wow, what are the odds?
Very sad update.
IMO.

 

[Bernie54]

Found in a well, after a one vehicle accident, sounds strange to me.
She may have been disoriented and fell in, but wow, what are the odds?
Very sad update.
IMO.

I think it was a freak accident. I believe it was four in the morning. She was working a very early shift, so quite dark and crashed off road into the woods. She may have been disoriented or just waiting for her husband and walking around.

It reminds me of that tragic story of the grandmother who was out looking for her cat or dog with her toddler granddaughter in the car… walked into a field and disappeared down into a well. I think it took them four days or a week to find her. I think the baby sat in the car for close to 24 hours before somebody noticed.

 

[Leilei]

I think it was a freak accident. I believe it was four in the morning. She was working a very early shift, so quite dark and crashed off road into the woods. She may have been disoriented or just waiting for her husband and walking around.

It reminds me of that tragic story of the grandmother who was out looking for her cat or dog with her toddler granddaughter in the car… walked into a field and disappeared down into a well. I think it took them four days or a week to find her. I think the baby sat in the car for close to 24 hours before somebody noticed.

Just awful
I guess I've always thought that if you had a well on your property you had to have a secure cover on it, but maybe the property is abandoned.
IMO.

 

[whitelilac]

A well with no cover. That picture in the article looks as though it's half hidden, no warning. Anyone could just walk right onto it. Awful. Who owns that land?

 

[swanniee11]

What a sad outcome. @Bernie54 I thought of the same case when I read this. Prayers for Shirley and her family.

 

[Bernie54]

What a sad outcome. @Bernie54 I thought of the same case when I read this. Prayers for Shirley and her family.

It never occurred to me that abandoned wells in the United States was a significant problem. First I heard of someone falling down a well was that two-year-old named Jessica years and years and years ago… I thought about it (and her) from time to time. Then less and less. Until these last two stories. So I did an internet search for abandoned wells or orphaned wells. Apparently they can be anywhere, and it doesn’t appear that they’re really anybody’s responsibility. (I’m certainly nowhere near an expert or even knowledgeable on these things, this is what I gleaned from just a cursory search on the Internet). If you buy a piece of land that has one on it without knowing about it, it is up to you to spend many thousands of dollars to fill it in, between 50k - 100k. Most people can’t afford to do that. Especially if it’s just a field in the middle of nowhere. But they’re building subdivisions on these old oil and gas lots, and I think over time it’s becoming a bigger problem. Somebody’s gonna have to pay to fill them all in.

Decaying Allegheny County oil and gas wells to be plugged with federal funding boost - Pittsburgh Union Progress

Ten decaying oil and gas wells, long abandoned by their owners, will be sealed shut and cleaned up in Allegheny County beginning early next year. The orphan well-plugging project is one of the first in Pennsylvania to be funded by a 2021 federal infrastructure law that promises to spend an...

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[asmi106082]

I think it was a freak accident. I believe it was four in the morning. She was working a very early shift, so quite dark and crashed off road into the woods. She may have been disoriented or just waiting for her husband and walking around.

It reminds me of that tragic story of the grandmother who was out looking for her cat or dog with her toddler granddaughter in the car… walked into a field and disappeared down into a well. I think it took them four days or a week to find her. I think the baby sat in the car for close to 24 hours before somebody noticed.

That was a sinkhole

 

[Bernie54]

That was a sinkhole

Thank you, that’s correct. Sorry I misspoke.

Thoughts and prayers for Shirley‘s friends and family as they remember her smiling face.

 

[airportwoman]

That was a sinkhole

Correct, and it was related to an abandoned coal mine.

 

[airportwoman]

Just awful
I guess I've always thought that if you had a well on your property you had to have a secure cover on it, but maybe the property is abandoned.
IMO.

Or the well may have been capped, and the cap deteriorated?

 

[JudyBolton]

Very sad outcome! She was a beloved Chick-fil-a employee and some of my former students had worked with her. They were very distraught as she was reported missing. The abandoned well was close to where her car accident. It appear she wandered while waiting for her husband an fell in.

 

[mlhenn]

Missing woman found dead in well in Monroe County. But hidden wells are more common than you may think

Freeman said the well was dry, but approximately 30 feet deep. He believes she died from her injuries from the fall.

www.13wmaz.com

Freeman said it seems like she got out of the passenger seat after crashing her car, and walked towards the shoulder of Abercrombie Road.

She was about three feet away from the shoulder of the road when she fell into a well with a flat top.

They found her body in a well about 20 to 30 yards from where she crashed her car.

The well was on the property of a home that's disintegrated in the woods. Freeman said it was the most freak accident he's ever seen, but believes it just that: an accident. He said the well was about 30 feet deep, but dry. Because of that, they believe she died from her injuries with the fall.

 

[Bernie54]

Missing woman found dead in well in Monroe County. But hidden wells are more common than you may think

Freeman said the well was dry, but approximately 30 feet deep. He believes she died from her injuries from the fall.

www.13wmaz.com

Freeman said it seems like she got out of the passenger seat after crashing her car, and walked towards the shoulder of Abercrombie Road.

She was about three feet away from the shoulder of the road when she fell into a well with a flat top.

They found her body in a well about 20 to 30 yards from where she crashed her car.

The well was on the property of a home that's disintegrated in the woods. Freeman said it was the most freak accident he's ever seen, but believes it just that: an accident. He said the well was about 30 feet deep, but dry. Because of that, they believe she died from her injuries with the fall.

I hope and pray she passed quickly. Only 3’ from the road. Took investigators til next day to find her after passing right by it… hidden in brush. May she Rest Easy and May her family have peace.

From the article posted above

“..the county will fill that well as soon as possible along with another well they found when they were looking for her.
"You're probably talking in Monroe County alone hundreds of wells that are very deep and uncovered. Or they were covered with some material that probably has rotted or something, they're very dangerous," Freeman said.”