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Search for missing woman with dementia resumes in south suburb
The search for a missing woman with dementia continued Saturday morning in Country Club Hills. The community has come together to search for 78-year-old Yolanda Howell.
CHICAGO - The body of a missing Country Club Hills woman with dementia was found near a Cook County forest preserve Saturday morning.
A search party gathered at Wolf Park forest preserve at 8 a.m. to help local police look for 78-year-old Yolanda Howell.
Howell had been missing since Tuesday, Oct. 8, after she left her home near the intersection of 187th Street and Cedar Avenue and did not return.
Just over an hour into the search, a drone found a person lying in a ravine in the Forest Preserves Bartel Grassland property, according to the Forest Preserves of Cook County Police Department.
Following further investigation, the person was an African-American woman who showed "no signs of life," said the FPCCPD. There were reportedly no signs of foul play.
Country Club Hills Police called off the search just before 11 a.m. and said Howell had been found.
Howell's body will be taken to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office for a post-mortem examination to determine her cause of death.
The incident is currently under investigation by the Cook County Forest Preserve and the Country Club Hills Police.
We'll bring more updates to this story as they become available.