According to Brownwood Police, at approximately 5:27 Wednesday night, officers responded to a call from a man who claimed his 85-year-old mother had been kidnapped from a Brownwood nursing home. When officers arrived, he explained that nursing home employees had notified him that they were unable to find the woman in the nursing home.
Reportedly, the man stated that his cousin may have abducted his mother from the nursing home although she had been instructed by him not to visit the missing woman while she was rehabilitating from hip fractures. The man explained to the officer responding that his mother’s physician had requested no visitations due to her fragile health.
Police further reported that upon speaking with nursing home staff, the missing woman had not been checked out of the nursing home and they were unable to find her within the nursing home. One employee noted seeing a woman she recognized as the woman’s niece, along with two other people described only as a middle aged man and woman, loading the missing woman into an extended cab pickup truck that was in the nursing home’s parking lot around 3:30pm that day.
The son thought his cousin might have been taking the missing woman to the cousin’s home in Bandera, according to the reports. Police contacted the cousin’s husband by phone and questioned him about his wife possibly being involved in the disappearance of her aunt. Noted in the report, the husband of the suspect stated that she was going to Brownwood to visit her aunt, but that he did not know when she would be back, possibly Thursday or Friday, that he knew she was traveling with friends in the friends car, that he did not have the names of those friends or the description of the car they were driving, and that he had no way of contacting his wife during the trip. Officers told the man that they felt it unusual that his wife would go on a trip four hours away and that he did not have any details of the trip. The man was then instructed to call Brownwood Police immediately when he had any contact from his wife.
Police reports stated that Detective Fuller and Sgt. Carroll were notified and began investigating the case. Due to the events that had transpired, the 85-year-old woman’s name was entered into the TCIC/NCIC system as a missing and endangered person.
On Thursday morning, Brownwood Police received information that the woman was being transported to Longview and that she was no longer considered to be endangered. No arrests were made; however, a further investigation is pending.
