Found Deceased VA - Lina Toot, 83, house door was left open, Moneta, Bedford County, 21 Feb 2019

[cybervampira]

Franklin County dive team joins search for missing Bedford County woman

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"All the divers here today are underwater criminal investigators on a master level," McCorkindale said.
Once under water with no visibility, McCorkindale says, the divers are searching in the pond by feeling the bottom.

"We'll go over the entire bottom using what we call a jackstay pattern. So that's a pattern where we've got two anchors on the bottom and you can see them on the buoys that are referenced on the surface," McCorkindale said.

On the other side of Toot's property was the saw team with Moneta Volunteer Fire Department. From a distance, crew members could be seen cutting through the bushes with saws and weed wackers.

"We'll go 40 feet, cut a line in and make a square, then go 40 feet, make a square. So we're able to look through this thicket," Capt. Mike Miller, with the Bedford County Sheriff's Office, said.

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[2Hope4]

Reliable, affordable overnight, in-home care for an elderly patient with dementia is very expensive and very difficult to find and even moreso in a tiny rural town. It can also be very difficult to take an independent adult from what is, for them, a very comfortable and familiar living situation. Moneta is a tiny little town, there were likely very few options available that don't involve moving her far away from family roots and community. Many patients with dementia do eventually start wandering as the disease progresses, but we don't know how much the family knew or could have anticipated this.

The farm Toot's owns is over 100 acres. If money was an issue, sell some of it. But living in this area, Ms. Toot's has money. They were paying someone to come in the late morning, afternoon hours. Just would have made more sense to have someone there in the evening and night.

Moneta is a small area, but borders larger areas that do have home health, and there's lots of people that do private sitting. It's rural, but not off of grid.

 

[YaYa_521]

Ms.Toot's on my heart this morning. Let's hope they find her safely hiding on the farm. Prayers for all!

 

[2Hope4]

Found deceased in a creek near her home. Press conference at 1.

 

[watcher9]

Found deceased in a creek near her home. Press conference at 1.

Is there a link to the press conference?

 

[2Hope4]

I haven't found a live stream. All our local channels are showing some political hearing. Wset is who announced she was found.

 

[2Hope4]

Police: Lina Toot found dead near her home

 

[YaYa_521]

Found deceased in a creek near her home. Press conference at 1.

Aww, this is not what I wanted to read.

I'm so sorry, Ms. Toot. May you rest peacefully among the angels. My prayers to her family and friends. I can only imagine how loved she must have been.

 

[watcher9]

May she now rest in peace.
Prayers also to searchers who found her.
Another link.

Missing Bedford Co. woman found in creek near her home

 

[2Hope4]

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[Tripod]

I feel so bad for her family. Bless her soul.