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Elderly Bridgeport woman with Dementia found after search that spanned a week

According to officials, 84-year-old Teresa Zangrilli was very weak when she was found and medics and doctors were unsuccessful at life-saving efforts.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — *Editor's Note: The video above aired on Wednesday, October 21.*

UPDATE: Monday 10/26

Bridgeport Police released the following: 

At approximately 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, October 25th, Teresa Zangrilli was located unresponsive in a patch of woods behind an office building at 12 Cambridge Drive in Trumbull. The location is a business park on the Trumbull/Bridgeport town-line - near Old Town Rd. Chopsey Hill Rd and Red Oak Rd. It is approximately 1.5 miles in walking distance from where she went missing at the Price Rite supermarket on upper Main St. on 10/18/20.

Ms. Zangrilli was transported by AMR to St. Vincent's Hospital, where she was pronounced deceased at approximately 12:27 p.m.

She was located by a Bridgeport resident who was volunteering to search for her. He was doing so on his bicycle.

She was found wearing the bright pink fleece top she was had on at the time she went missing.

The Connecticut State Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will be conducting an autopsy on Ms. Zangrilli. The investigation into her death is continuing.

Our thoughts are with Ms. Zangrilli’s family at this time.

UPDATE: SUNDAY 10/25

Bridgeport Police announced Sunday that 84-year-old Teresa Zangrilli was found alive and transported to an area hospital.

According to officials, Zangrilli was very weak when she was found and medics and doctors were unsuccessful at life-saving efforts. 

Police reported shortly after 12 p.m. that she was found, but did not provide any additional information regarding the location.

Zangrilli was first reported missing from a Bridgeport area Price Rite on October 19.

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UPDATE, THURSDAY 10/22

BPD did a secondary thorough search of Elton Rodgers Park including an air search. That search has been unsuccessful. PD will be out again tomorrow and are asking the community to review any camera footage, look around their property and assist. If you see her please dial 911, if you have any information please call 203576TIPS

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Police and the family of an 84-year-old Bridgeport woman, missing since Sunday, are coming up empty in a search.

84-year-old Teresa Zangrilli, who suffers from Alzheimer's and diabetes, vanished Sunday afternoon at about 4 PM from the Price Rite parking lot upper Main Street in Bridgeport.

Zangrilli went to Price Rite with a family member but decided to stay in the car. And when the family member returned, the woman, listed at 5'2", 150 lbs, was gone.

"We immediately rushed down to Bridgeport," said Eric Rosenbaum, Zangrilli's grandson. "I called out of work. Had to get down here immediately as a family comes first and we had to be here to provide."

"No one has slept," said Sandra Figueiredo, one of Zangrilli's children. "I’ve been searching for her. The detectives and police officers that are working the case have been wonderful."

Theresa was last seen on surveillance video near this Marshall’s sign right next to the Price Rite parking lot just before 4 PM Sunday. And police say her cell phone pinged sometime Sunday evening, on nearby Chopsey Hill Road at Reservoir Road.

"If you see her, contact the police right away," Figueiredo said. "If you do have her please, please, please, please bring her back to us, no questions asked."

Mrs. Zangrilli was wearing the pink fleece top seen in the photograph police released when she was reported missing. She had a beige V-neck top underneath and was also wearing brown pants and black shoes.

"There is a $5,000 reward and if anyone is able to bring her home to us safely," Figueiredo said.

"I’m trying to keep as much as an optimistic feeling as possible," said Rosenbaum. "Keeping that outlook is what’s keeping us going."

The family says Teresa‘s picture will be going up on billboards and in bus and train stations.

"She is the most wonderful mother and grandmother anyone could have," Figueiredo said.

Police have searched with K-9's, helicopters and even had a dive team on standby .

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