Foul play isn’t likely, police say
RALEIGH - Friends and family say Mildred Early Rogers began wandering from home in February after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease late last year.
Rogers, 76, took her last walk down a gravel road off Yonkers Road near Crabtree Creek. Police say she wandered down the tree-lined road that gave way to soft dirt and then grass before she became mired in a boggy area with heavy vegetation and died.
She had not been seen since Saturday afternoon, five hours before her husband reported her missing. She was found at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday more than two miles from her home on Dennis Avenue.
Police are not sure when Rogers died, though they do not think foul play was involved because her body bore no signs of injury.
“It may have been exposure,” Raleigh police Capt. Chris Bertram said Tuesday near the entrance of the road that led to where Rogers was found.
Police had used all-terrain vehicles, horses and a helicopter to search the wooded area near Crabtree Creek for three days before finding Rogers’ body, Bertram said
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