{"id":1791,"date":"2018-03-22T13:03:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T17:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=1791"},"modified":"2018-03-22T13:03:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T17:03:51","slug":"snowstorm-tragedy-toms-river-woman-87-found-dead-after-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2018\/03\/snowstorm-tragedy-toms-river-woman-87-found-dead-after-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowstorm Tragedy: Toms River Woman, 87, Found Dead After Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1792\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1792\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1792\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/snow_woods-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Snow in a wooded area. (File Photo)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/snow_woods-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/snow_woods-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/snow_woods-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/snow_woods-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/snow_woods-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/snow_woods-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/snow_woods-180x135.jpg 180w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/snow_woods-238x178.jpg 238w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/snow_woods-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/snow_woods-681x511.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1792\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snow in a wooded area. (File Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A Toms River woman who suffered from Alzheimer\u2019s disease was the subject of a massive search in the early morning hours Thursday, but the effort came to a tragic end when she was found deceased in the snow.<\/p>\n<p>Police dispatchers received a call at about 4:30 a.m. in reference to a missing person, police spokesman Ralph Stocco said. It was reported by relatives that an 87-year-old woman, who resided at the Oak Grove Mobile Park, was not at home.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, who suffered from dementia and Alzheimer\u2019s disease, was last seen by relatives around midnight. Despite the harsh weather conditions, a wide-scale search was initiated by the Toms River Police Department, East Dover Fire & EMS, and the Ocean County Sheriff\u2019s Department K-9 Division, Stocco said.\u00a0 Tragically, at 6:20 am, responders found the woman was found deceased in the snow about a mile away from her home.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of death is not immediately known, however investigators do not suspect any criminal activity at this time. The woman\u2019s name was not publicly identified.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2018\/03\/snowstorm-tragedy-toms-river-woman-87-found-dead-after-search\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Toms River woman who suffered from Alzheimer\u2019s disease was the subject of a massive search in the early morning hours Thursday, but the effort came to a tragic end when she was found deceased in the snow. Police dispatchers received a call at about 4:30 a.m. in reference to a missing person, police spokesman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[110,11],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-police-fire-courts","tag-noreaster","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/snow_woods.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}