Missing woman found in 1960s hometown
Associated Press
An Idaho woman who disappeared last week has been found, disoriented but alive, in the small Mississippi town where her father once was a minister in the 1960s.
Cynthia Adams, a 52-year-old Boise woman, was reported missing Tuesday when she didn’t return from a doctor’s appointment. She has told police she doesn’t know how she got to Mississippi.
Stan Niccolls of the Boise Police Department said Adams apparently made three cash withdrawals, one in Idaho and two in Wyoming. On Saturday, she appeared at the door of a home in Clara, Miss.
Wayne County, Miss., deputy sheriff Michael Patton said Adams is lucky the same people lived at the house as in the 1960s.
Adams’ husband told the Idaho Statesman newspaper he had no reason to believe Cynthia would simply disappear. The couple hadn’t fought, and though she had health problems, she didn’t have issues with her memory.
On Thursday, she was officially a missing person. On Friday, there was no update. But when Tina Brewer opened the Clara Grocery on Saturday morning, in walked Adams.
“She told us that she had got in at 1 o’clock in the morning and slept in her truck the night before,” Brewer said. “She looked like somebody who’d been up all night. It was kinda strange.”
Adams told Singleton she slept in the parking lot of her father’s church on Friday night. The pastor’s home used to be on the same property, along with a small religious school.
Wayne County Deputy Michael Patton pulled up to Singleton’s house Saturday afternoon.
“I didn’t want to scare her,” Patton said. “She appeared a little confused. She was dressed OK, normal. But I got her name, and then saw she was the lady that was missing from Idaho.”
Police reached her husband, who told the Idaho Statesman he planned to fly in as soon as he could.