Helen Jensen, 95, was found dead early Tuesday morning (Dec. 8th) after wandering away in her wheelchair from the Wesley Homes Health Care Center in Des Moines Monday night.
According to KING-TV, Jensen went missing from Wesley Homes Monday night around 11:45pm. Staff apparently did not call police until about 2:30am. After police searched for her for about 45 minutes, they found her deceased body on the ground about 100 yards away at 1000 South 216th Street.
Police reviewed video surveillance tapes and saw that Jensen had left the nursing home in her wheelchair around 11:45pm.
The King County medical examiner has not yet determined Jensen’s cause of death, but temperatures have been below freezing for the last several nights, raising the possibility that Jensen died of exposure.
Here’s a video report from KING-TV:
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