Patricia Kopta

2023 - 3 - 5

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Woman who went missing more than 30 years ago and declared ... (Sky News)

Patricia Kopta, who was known to be an "eccentric" street preacher who went by the name "Sparrow", had last been seen in Pennsylvania in 1992.

However, her family has said she was in fact a straight-A student in the US, who became a model and dance instructor. Mr Kohlhepp has said police believe Mrs Kopta fled the country because she was "concerned she was going to be institutionalised". Now I can forget about it. Before her disappearance, US-based doctors at a mental health facility had diagnosed Mrs Kopta with "delusions of grandeur" and said she had signs of schizophrenia. "After 30 years, you try to forget about it. Mrs Kopta, who has dementia, has been living in a nursing home after she was taken in as a "person in need" seven years after she disappeared.

Pennsylvania Woman Who Disappeared in 1992 Is Found Alive in ... (The New York Times)

The family of Patricia Kopta, now 83, thought she had died years ago. They were stunned to learn that she had been on the island since at least 1999.

Ms. Smith said she was planning to visit her sister in Puerto Rico soon, even if the dementia means Ms. The samples were sent to a lab, where a familial test concluded that the woman in Puerto Rico was indeed Ms. Even before the results came back, investigators had believed for months that the older woman in a photo from Puerto Rico was Ms. She also had a history of mental health struggles before she disappeared at the age of 52, her family and the police chief said. She always said she wanted to go to a warm climate.” Smith and Ms. Kopta, who was nicknamed “the sparrow,” was known to wander the streets of downtown Pittsburgh as a street preacher. Kopta shared that prompted the nursing home to contact the authorities, or how she had gotten there in the first place. Kopta’s younger sister, Gloria Smith, who attended the news conference on Friday, summed up how she felt when the police determined through DNA evidence this week that her sister was indeed in Puerto Rico: “Shock. The nursing home contacted the department last year, telling investigators that they had perhaps been taking care of a woman with dementia who might have disappeared from the Pennsylvania township near Pittsburgh in 1992. Kopta nor the Ross Township Police Department immediately responded to requests for comment on Saturday.

Woman missing more than 30 years and thought to be dead found ... (CNN)

Patricia Kopta, who went missing in 1992, was discovered living in a nursing home in Puerto Rico. CNN —.

It was a very big shock to see – to know that she’s still alive,” her sister said. When she was in Pittsburgh, Patricia was a “well-known street preacher,” according to the missing person flier. Kohlhepp said police knew she had likely left of her own volition. Her husband, Bob Kopta, reported her missing a few months later in the fall. Police said her disappearance wasn’t overtly suspicious because they “knew she had a mental health history and she had made statements to other family individuals that she was leaving, that she was concerned that she was going to be placed into a care facility here,” Kohlhepp said. INTERPOL and the social worker said Patricia was found wandering the streets and through the years she had “refused to ever discuss her private life or where she came from,” Kohlhepp said.

Who Is Patricia Kopta? Missing Woman Found Alive After 31 Years (SheThePeople)

More than three decades after Pennsylvania street preacher Patricia Kopta was reported missing, she was found alive in an adult care home in Puerto Rico.

- Her husband, Bob Kopta and her sister Gloria Smith expressed gratitude that Patricia Kopta was found alive after 31 years. We request you to support our award-winning journalism by making a financial contribution towards our efforts. This earned her the nickname ‘The Sparrow’. The contacts believed they found Kopta alive in a facility 1,700 miles (2,735 metres) away. 31 years later, Ross Township Deputy Police Chief Brian Kohlhepp received information from an Interpol agent and social worker in Puerto Rico. - The Ross Township police said during a press conference that Patricia was found in need for care in 1999 and taken to an adult care home.

Woman who vanished 31 years ago found alive in Puerto Rico (KHOU.com)

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Pennsylvania woman who went missing more than 30 years ago in a case that stumped authorities who later declared her legally dead ...

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Who is Patricia Kopta? Pennsylvania woman presumed dead 31 ... (Opoyi)

A woman from Pennsylvania named Patricia Kopta, who went missing and was presumed dead 31 years ago was found alive at a nursing home in Puerto Rico, ...

Legally, Patricia Kopta was pronounced deceased. DNA samples were used to prove that the woman was, in fact, Patricia Kopta herself. She claimed to have arrived in Puerto Rico on a cruise ship from Europe. While there, she refused to discuss her private life or where she came from. When she landed in Puerto Rico, she allegedly travelled there on a cruise ship from Europe. They thought they had located Kopta alive at an adult care facility 1,700 miles distant.

Woman who disappeared over three decades ago is found alive in ... (Scottish Daily Record)

Patricia Kopta, then 52, was declared dead in the US after she disappeared from her Pittsburgh home in 1992.

She said: “It was hard on all of us because my mother, her [other] sister and myself worried about her constantly. However, the elderly woman, who suffers with [dementia](https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/all-about/dementia), has now been found alive in Puerto Rico aged 83 after she lent her real identity and background slip to a social worker. After nine months of an Interpol investigation and studying DNA samples, Patricia's real identity was revealed. However, a suspicious worker contacted Interpol when she recently began to give away some details of her past. Patricia Kopta, then 52, disappeared suddenly in 1992 from Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, US after her husband came home and she was nowhere to be seen. We really thought she was dead all those years.