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Woman Missing 5 Days Says She’s Suffering from AmnesiaJUNEAU (AP) — Dee Lacy says she has amnesia, and didn’t know who or where she was when searchers spent five days and thousands of dollars looking for her earlier this month.“I just want to be able to go on with my life and put as much of this behind me as possible,” Lacy told the Juneau Empire on Friday. “My family and I are taking this one step at a time.”The 34-year-old Juneau woman left a note to her family saying she was going on a hike Feb. 5. She was reported missing when she didn’t return.A five-day rescue effort for Lacy, which involved more than 50 volunteers and 1,200 hours of searching, cost the Alaska State Troopers’ search and rescue fund more than $9,000.4 ‘The last thing I remember was being in the woods,” she said.Lacy later heard a radio broadcast about a missing woman while in a store in a neighboring town she refused to identify.“I remember feeling somehow connected to the situation and very upset about what that woman’s family was going through. When I found out the missing woman was me, I was astonished and scared. ’ ’People contacted authorities for help after realizing she had serious memory problems, said Lacy, who is seeing a doctor.Lacy said she was disoriented and had been calling herself by a name unrelated to her real life.She said her memory gap extends back a year. She and her newlywed husband and four children moved to Juneau from Texas in November.Lacy said she is not living at home, although she declined to say where she is staying. She said she has not worked out everything with her husband, and she is still is unable to work.“I didn’t run away and when I do know what happened to me. I’ll let other people know, too,” said Lacy, who on Feb. 10 called a Juneau crisis line to say she was not lost and was unharmed. She also called her family and J uneau police.“I just want everyone to know I ama good person, a good worker, a good mother — and they tell me — a good wife,” said Lacy, who had been employed as a home care assistant for J uneau Hospice and Home Care.Trauma may have caused her amnesia, she said. She said she has constant headaches and was covered with minor scratches and bruises when she “woke up” in a different town.“I can’t even walk the streets of Juneau without being stared at. There have been a lot of lies and rumors, especially about people knowing where I was all along. I didn’t know where I was.”
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Daily Sitka Sentinel
Sitka, Alaska, US
Mon, Feb 24, 1992
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