Nov 15, 2007 2:10 pm US/Eastern
Missing Rhode Island Woman Found In Baltimore
BALTIMORE (WJZ) ―
A mother suffering from postpartum depression has been found among the city's homeless after her family and police searched for months.
Suzanne Collins reports the woman left a hospital ward in Lincoln, R.I. and has just been found in downtown Baltimore.
On Sept. 5, mother of two Katie Corcoran was receiving treatment for postpartum depression when she disappeared from a hospital in Rhode Island. Her husband and police have searched for her since with a Web page, billboards and a hotline number.
This weekend she was discovered in Baltimore among this city's homeless, and reunited with her family.
There had been searches by dozens of volunteers in Rhode Island and even New York, where she had been spotted.
A shop owner near the JFX thought the woman looked out of place. She did an Internet search for the words "Katie" and "missing" and found police and the woman's family were looking for her.
Corcoran had been spotted in an area of Baltimore where numerous homeless shanties have cropped up. The location is not far from the new "Our Daily Bread" soup kitchen. One woman remembered her from the day shelter, "My Sister's Place."
"She was basically in arts and crafts group doing arts and crafts with everybody and just sitting there," said the witness.
The woman's family isn't commenting, but Rhode Island police say it's a happy ending and Corcoran is getting treatment for her illness.
Earlier Corcoran's family identified her on a surveillance video in Manhattan, but a search of homeless shelters in that city didn't succeed.
Her husband picked her up in Baltimore Saturday.
There was a $50,000 reward. It's not clear yet if the Baltimore shop owner will receive that award.
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