Woman With Candy Survives Weeks in Woods
A 68-year-old woman with a mild case of dementia apparently survived nearly two weeks alone in the woods by nibbling candy.
Vernita Frazier was hospitalized in good condition in Bremerton, where she was treated for hypothermia, cuts and scrapes.
Police said Frazier endured temperatures as low as 37 degrees.
Frazier vanished May 28 after going for a walk. She “apparently left home with some candy in her purse, and she’d been eating a little of it every day,” hospital spokeswoman Patti Hart said. “She had some left over.”
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