A Pennsylvania coroner’s workplace stated Friday that investigators imagine they’ve situated the physique of a girl who was final seen 4 days earlier close to a sinkhole above a shuttered coal mine.
Sean Hribal, a deputy coroner in Westmoreland County, stated searchers imagine they’ve discovered the stays of 64-year-old Elizabeth Pollard.
A coroner was dispatched by regulation enforcement shortly after 11 a.m. to Unity Township, the place crews have been excavating the deserted coal mine in an effort to find Pollard.
SEARCH INTENSIFIES FOR MISSING PENNSYLVANIA GRANDMOTHER AS CREWS ENCOUNTER UNSTABLE MINE SHAFTS
Elizabeth Pollard, 64, might have fallen into an unlimited sinkhole whereas looking for her misplaced pet. (KDKA / Pennsylvania State Police through AP)
State police Trooper Steve Limani advised the Pittsburgh Publish-Gazette that there was large reduction among the many search crew that Pollard had been discovered.
“We were running out of options, time and resources,” Limani advised the paper. “I was getting worried we weren’t gonna find her.”
Axel Hayes, Pollard’s son, stated in a quick cellphone interview Friday that he had not heard from authorities and deliberate to name his father, Kenny Pollard, to let him know.
A rescue canine searches although particles that was faraway from a sinkhole on Dec. 5, 2024, the place rescue staff imagine Elizabeth Pollard disappeared whereas searching for her cat, in Marguerite, Pennsylvania. (AP Picture/Matt Freed)
Elizabeth Pollard was final seen looking for her cat Pepper on Monday night close to a restaurant a half-mile from her house. Pollard’s household reported her lacking round 1 a.m. Tuesday because the temperature within the space dropped under freezing.
The search targeted on a sinkhole with a manhole-sized floor hole that will have solely not too long ago opened up within the village of Marguerite, above the place coal was mined till about 70 years in the past.
Police stated they discovered Pollard’s automobile parked about 20 ft from the sinkhole. Pollard’s 5-year-old granddaughter was discovered protected contained in the automobile.
Search intensifies for lacking Pennsylvania grandmother suspected of falling into sinkhole (KDKA / NNS)
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Hunters and restaurant staff who had been within the space within the hours earlier than Pollard’s disappearance advised police they hadn’t observed the sinkhole.
The hassle to search out Pollard included reducing a pole digital camera with a delicate listening machine into the opening, though it detected nothing. Crews eliminated a large quantity of soil and rock to attempt to attain the realm the place they believed she fell into the chasm about 30 ft deep.
Pollard grew up in Jeanette, about 12 miles from Unity Township, the place she lived for a lot of her grownup life. She beforehand labored at Walmart and was married for greater than 40 years.
