An 89-year-old woman died after she disappeared from the facility that was supposed to keep her safe.
Channel 2′s Cobb County Bureau Chief Michele Newell learned this isn’t the first time a resident has disappeared from the facility in Marietta.
Retired law enforcement official David Lee remembers responding to a similar situation in the late 1990s.
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“We had received a report of a missing elderly lady who had walked off,” Lee said.
Lee worked for the Marietta Police Department when he and his team searched for a woman who disappeared from the Greenwood Place Assisted Living and Memory Care facility on Whitlock Avenue.
“When it happened, the lady fell down a small hill, 15 feet down to the bottom and we found her in some bushes in there. Unlike this last incident, we were lucky to find her alive,” Lee said.
Police reports reveal more than a dozen investigations at the facility over the past four years.
Of those, two arrests were made for two different alleged crimes which include larceny and assault.