Atlanta Police cancel Mattie's Call after safely locating 82-year-old woman
Marie Briscoe (Atlanta Police Department)
ATLANTA - Atlanta Police ended their search for a missing 82-year-old woman Sunday evening.
Authorities said Marie Briscoe was found safe after she was reported missing when she left 2585 Browntown Rd. NW on March 6.
Briscoe had been perviously diagnosed with early onset dementia and is an insulin dependent diabetic.
As a result, a Mattie's Call, Georgia's emergency missing alert for disabled or elderly persons, was issued.
Briscoe is described as an African-American female, 5 ft. and 8 in. tall, weighing around 167 pounds, with brown eyes. She walks with a cane and during the search officials believed she traveled on foot somewhere in the vicinity of her home.
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