A search for a missing 86 year-old man suffering from dementia ended in tragedy after he was found dead in a drainage ditch.
On Sunday, March 21, Teddy Grady’s body was discovered in a ditch in Hallwood, California, just eight hours after his family reported that he was missing.
Teddy was last seen at a guest house attached to his family’s home on Saturday night.
His family reported him missing after waking up around 8am on Sunday, with a Silver Alert – an app used to track missing adults.
The search for Teddy began and Yuba County Sheriff’s Office were shown footage from a neighbor’s security camera showing Teddy walking around the area by himself in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Police increased their search parameters and used cars, horses and a helicopter to look for him.
His dead body was found in the ditch on Sunday evening.