Almost two weeks after she was reported missing, the body of 81-year-old Carol Tormey was discovered in a Miramar canal on Wednesday night.
Authorities also found Tormey's 2018 black Chevy Colorado submerged in the water. Police responded to the area near Southwest 196th Avenue, south of Pembroke Road, after fishermen discovered the body in the canal.
Tormey, who had Alzheimer's, was last seen on July 21 in Fort Lauderdale.
Multiple family members of Tormey shared on social media that her body was discovered in the canal on Wednesday. Miramar Police said they were positive it was Tormey but are waiting on the medical examiner's results because the body was underwater for a significant amount of time.
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"Right now, (Tormey's family is) grieving heavily, so I don’t want to speak for them, but it’s a sad time and there’s a journey of grief they’ve got to go through right now," said Mark Edwards, who is part of a search and recovery organization from Texas and was hired by the family.
Her family believes Tormey took the truck from their Fort Lauderdale home, drove around eastern Broward County, then into the western part of the county, then into the canal at the end of Pembroke Road, some 30 miles from her home.
Tormey's family and friends had distributed flyers to try to get the public's help in their search for her.
“I want everybody looking for her, not just the Fort Lauderdale Police Department,” her son, John Tormey, told NBC6 at that time. “I want the Miccosukee Police Department to be looking for her, I want MDPD to be looking for her.”
