While on routine patrol on third shift Christmas night, Sewanee Police officer Greg Dempsey saw an abandoned car parked near the Memorial Cross. According to Sewanee Police Chief Marie Eldridge, Dempsey returned later in the night and the vehicle was still there. He looked in the car and found an apparent suicide note.
Dempsey called for assistance; members of the Sewanee Fire Department and the Franklin County Sheriff’s office, as well as Sewanee interim assistant chief Tony Gilliam and officer Dan Ferguson, arrived on the scene. A search ensued and the woman was discovered in the woods in the sub-freezing weather. Her family, who had filed a missing person report on the Nashville woman, was contacted. The woman was transported to Emerald-Hodgson Hospital and then airlifted to Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga.
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