SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The body of a 78-year-old Salem woman has been recovered from a construction pit after she apparently became disoriented and fell in.
KPTV in Portland reports the family of Joy Groh said she was in the beginning stages of dementia. They reported her missing after she failed to return home as planned at about 8 p.m. last night.
Marion County sheriff’s deputies say Groh became disoriented and drove her car from her Salem neighborhood to Buena Vista Road on the east side of the Willamette River.
Because of construction, the road was closed. But deputies say it appeared Groh tried to drive around the construction barricade when her car became stuck in mud against a pallet of building materials. A medical examiner will determine Groh’s cause of death.
