MIDDLETOWN — A missing Middletown woman has been found dead in the Great Miami River this afternoon.
72-year-old Deborah Riley was last seen when she left her home on Lincoln Street around 11:30 p.m. on Saturday and didn’t come back.
“We received a call that a body was found floating in the river. Upon recovering the body we were able to identify that it was Deborah Riley,” Middletown police said.
A cause of Riley’s death wasn’t immediately known.
Riley suffered from dementia and law enforcement had been concerned for her safety and issued a statewide endangered missing adult alert over the weekend.