{"id":566968,"date":"2026-04-06T01:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/566968\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T01:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:09:09","slug":"somers-point-woman-missing-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/566968\/","title":{"rendered":"Somers Point woman missing two days"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Somers Point family is looking for help finding a woman missing since Friday.<\/p>\n

Melanie Santo, 33, was last seen at Somers Point News & Tobacco on New Road, where she borrowed a phone to call her father, her mother said.<\/p>\n

Santo had been released from One Pines, an AtlantiCare facility in Galloway Township that provides behavioral and mental health services.<\/p>\n

When she called, she was not making sense but her father believed she still was in the hospital, her mother, Renee Santo, said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was not until later that they learned she had been released without notification.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Renee Santo told BreakingAC that the hospital claimed HIPPA rules were why they did not notify the family, telling police the same thing.<\/p>\n

But Renee Santo said that police told the hospital because it was not medical information, they had not right to withhold it.<\/p>\n

It was not clear how Melanie Santo may have gotten from Galloway Township to Somers Point.<\/p>\n

Her mother said that they know she somehow made it to her home by the Ring camera, but that no one was there at the time.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/a> \u00a0Melanie Santo seen on Ring camera.
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That is when Melanie apparently got to the store, where she called her father.<\/p>\n

Renee Santo said it has been difficult to get information because her daughter is an adult. Melanie was admitted to the hospital about two weeks ago after a psychotic episode.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Renee Santo said Melanie has always lived with one of her parents.<\/p>\n

She said the hospital “assured my (Melanie’s father that) they don’t release without somewhere to go, and we were so worried this would happen.”<\/p>\n

Melanie Santo was last seen wearing blue jeans with rips in the knees, white sneakers and a gray-and-pink light jacket.<\/p>\n

She has no identification, phone or money, and is off her medication.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information is asked to call Somers Point police at 609-927-6161.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Somers Point family is looking for help finding a woman missing since Friday. Melanie Santo, 33, was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-566968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}