A 65-year-old Maryland man with dementia who wandered away from his wife at a Costco store last week and went missing in the bitter cold has been found dead, it was reported on Wednesday.
Prince George’s County police said Daniel DeHaven was found Tuesday night in a wooded area near Baltimore-Washington International Marshall Airport by a person out for a walk.
His wife told police he disappeared on January 2 while she went to get a shopping cart at a Costco in Prince George’s, according to The Washington Post.
She said she turned around to fine him gone.
Daniel DeHaven (above), a 65-year-old Maryland man with dementia who wandered away from his wife at a Costco store last week and went missing in the bitter cold, has been found dead
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Prince George’s County police said DeHaven was found Tuesday night in a wooded area near Baltimore-Washington International Marshall Airport by a person out for a walk
The recent bitter cold temperatures prompted intense efforts to find him, including the use of helicopters and bloodhounds.
His body was found about 20 miles from the Costco store. Police said there are ‘no suspicious factors’ in his death.
DeHaven was described as non-verbal.
He was last seen on January 2 at the Costco on Baltimore Avenue near Beltsville, Maryland.
At around 11:30am on that day, his wife had gone to get a shopping cart. When she turned around, he was gone, according to authorities.
At the time of his disappearance, the temperature in Prince George’s County was 27 degrees.
From the time that he disappeared on January 2 until this past Sunday, the temperature never exceeded 23 degrees.
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His wife told police he disappeared on January 2 while she went to get a shopping cart at a Costco in Prince George’s County, Maryland (seen above)
The temperatures grew more milder on Monday – with highs in the mid-to-high 30s – and Tuesday. The high temperature in Prince George’s County on Tuesday was 52 degrees.
The first week of 2018 saw the Northeast in the grip of an Arctic cold spell with low temperatures reaching the single digits and wind chills dipping below zero.
On Sunday, Prince George’s County police said that DeHaven may have been picked up by a motorist.
The police said on Twitter that the motorist could have picked him up on Route 1 and then dropped him off in neighboring Anne Arundel County near Gambrills.
Gambrills is about halfway between where DeHaven went missing and where his body was found.
DeHaven’s son, Kevin DeHaven, said that his father was confused and ‘out there somewhere, probably cold and probably hungry.’
When learning of his disappearance, the police exerted great effort to track him down due to the severity of the weather.
Their search, however, was made more difficult by the fact that Daniel DeHaven was unable to speak.
That mean he could not tell anyone his name or his home address.
Daniel DeHaven was also a physically fit man who walked three miles a day.
Authorities have yet to say where they found DeHaven’s body. They also have yet to reveal when they believe he died.