PANHANDLE, Texas \u2014 A missing elderly couple was found dead four days after a trip to Panhandle for Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n
According to Carson County Sheriff Tam Terry, the bodies of Charles “Gary” Lightfoot, 82, and Linda Eppers Lightfoot, 81, were found Tuesday in a pasture outside Tucumcari, New Mexico.<\/p>\n
Law enforcement believes they died from hypothermia.<\/p>\n
The couple was visiting friends for the holiday. They left Panhandle on Friday afternoon, headed to Lubbock, but never made it home.<\/p>\n
The Lightfoots were reported missing to the Panhandle Police Department. A Silver Alert was then issued by DPS.<\/p>\n
Terry told ABC 7 News the couple’s Toyota Camry was spotted by license plate readers in Groom, Texas, and San Jon, New Mexico. The car also pinged a cell tower in Tucumcari.<\/p>\n
New Mexico State Police said it used a helicopter to search for the couple. The Quay County Sheriff’s Office told ABC 7 News they had drones up Friday and Saturday. Deputies also patrolled every street they could by car. <\/p>\n
Charles Lightfoot was “oxygen dependent,” so the Carson County Sheriff’s Office believed the couple’s disappearance “(posed) a credible threat to their health and safety.”<\/p>\n
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According to DPS, neither of them had a cell phone which made the search even harder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PANHANDLE, Texas \u2014 A missing elderly couple was found dead four days after a trip to Panhandle for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-73523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}