Five days after she went missing, a 67-year-old woman with Alzheimer’s disease was found and taken to the intensive care unit Friday.
Family say Victoria Townsend was found in different clothes and without her purse, ID and bank cards, Channel 2 Action News reported. She was taken to Emory University Hospital in Midtown, where she has a fever.
Townsend was first reported missing Monday after visiting SunTrust Bank near Greenbriar Mall.
A Mattie’s call was issued for the woman Tuesday, and her family launched a search, passing out flyers near Townsend’s home in south Fulton County.
Daughter Sharon Wilder told Channel 2 her mother is in the early stages of Alzheimer’s.
"She goes in and out with her memory,” she said. “Sometimes, she knows who her kids are. Sometimes, she (doesn’t). Sometimes, she even forgets her name."
Questions linger in Townsend’s disappearance, her family said.
"I don't know where they picked her up at and that is what I'm trying to find out,” Wilder said.
On top of that, the family doesn’t yet know what happened to her or where she was. Wilder thinks she may have been with someone she knew since no Good Samaritan has come forward to claim the reward, Channel 2 reported.
"I'm going to get down to the bottom of it,” Wilder said. “If that's the last thing I do because that's my mother."
