Paradise Valley Police find missing 84-year-old woman dead
Laleah "Jo" Ebentier
PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. - The Paradise Valley Police Department found an 84-year-old woman who has been missing since April 8th dead.
She was found in the backyard of a home in Paradise Valley, and police currently do not recognize any signs of criminal activity.
Laleah "Jo" Ebentier suffers from dementia and is believed to have impaired mobility, the department says.
Investigators believe she left her home near the 8600 block of North Via La Serena around 10 a.m. in Paradise Valley.
She was last seen wearing gold glasses, a green long sleeved T-shirt, green and black floral patterned shorts, dark blue Crocs and peach colored socks.
A K-9 officer with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office conducted a search that led investigators to the 5200 block of East Hatcher Road. That's where the foot search stopped and where investigators believe she was picked up by a driver.
Doors were knocked on, an aerial search was conducted, but Ebentier was still not found.
The Paradise Valley Police Department asks all residents in the area to check their surveillance, walk their yards, and share this message with neighbors to help its efforts to safely fiind Ebentier.