The summer of 1992 was not normal for the American Patricia Copta and her family. The then 52-year-old woman disappeared without saying a word, leaving her husband and sisters captive to unravel the mystery of her sudden disappearance.
According to the details published by the French magazine "Le Point", the woman was living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the time.
Despite the police's vigorous attempts to find her, she was unable to do so, and when her husband lost hope, she was declared legally dead after years of fruitless searching.
But Patricia, now 83, is still alive and was found in a nursing home in Puerto Rico, according to CNN and Sky News.
According to what was reported by foreign websites and newspapers, her husband had gone to Puerto Rico to look for her, knowing that she loved the sun, but he did not find any trace of her there.
New information about the American woman who suffers from dementia indicates that she was admitted to the nursing home in June of 1999, 7 years after her disappearance, and no one was able to identify her because she refused to talk to the care staff.
Patricia Kopta disappeared from Pennsylvania in 1992, only to be found alive in Puerto Rico as a now-83-year-old.
She suffered from dementia and was living in an adult home.
Staff pieced together details she told them and contacted authorities.
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According to what was reported by the "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" newspaper, Patricia told doctors that she had spent an "indefinite" period on a cruise ship and that she had come from Europe, but this information could not be confirmed by the authorities.
Mystery still surrounds the seven years that followed the disappearance of the American woman before she was housed in the nursing home, so no one knows what she might have done or where she lived, except that a brief statement to the police said that she was seen in the cities of Naranjito, Corozal, and Toa Alta (Puerto Rican cities) before entering the nursing home. .
Over the years Patricia's mental health deteriorated, and during her delirium she released some information about her past, allowing the supervising staff to identify the woman's identity.
After conducting acid tests, Patricia's identity was identified and her husband and sister were informed, who expressed their happiness at the news of her survival, and expressed their hope that she would return to her home city of Pittsburgh, but Patricia seemed to see otherwise, as she indicated that she wanted to stay where she is.