The body of an 84-year-old woman who went missing in April was discovered in a submerged car earlier this month, authorities confirmed.
Sara Padgett was reported missing on April 10 to the Shelbyville Police Department in Tennessee, roughly a week after her landlord last saw her on April 2, the department told PEOPLE. At the time, police said she might have been traveling in a blue Nissan Sentra.
More than four months later, on Wednesday, Aug. 27, police provided an update. Their statement noted that the department’s digital forensic unit directed a nonprofit sonar and dive search-and-recovery group to Normandy Lake, the last known location her cellphone had pinged…