Missing Pennsylvania woman found living in Puerto Rico 30 years later

A Pennsylvania woman who went missing from her husband more than 30 years earlier and was even legally declared dead has been found alive in Puerto Rico, according to authorities.

After she lost her job, she began frequenting downtown streets, admonishing baseball game spectators and concertgoers to go home because the world was about to end, Bob Kopta recalled, according to the Post-Gazette.

Then, one day in 1992, Bob Kopta went home to Ross Township, found that Patricia Kopta had left, and filed a missing person report with the local police.

There was no sign of her for years, though once she sent her husband a letter recounting how someone was pursuing her, which echoed claims she had made multiple times earlier.

In their desperation to find her, investigators at one point spoke with a psychic who suggested Patricia Kopta had died and that her body was near water.

Bob Kopta eventually obtained a legal declaration saying that his wife was considered dead.

Kohlhepp released a statement on Thursday describing how Patricia Kopta had wandered the Puerto Rican towns of Naranjito, Corozal and Toa Alta before the social worker and Interpol agent began to suspect who she might be, the Post-Gazette reported.