Boise woman found disoriented in 1960s Mississippi hometown

BOISE (AP) - An Idaho woman who disappeared last week has been found, disoriented but alive, in the small Mississippi town where her father was once a minister in the 1960s.

Cynthia Adams, a 52-year-old Boise woman, was reported missing on Tuesday when she didn't return from a doctor's appointment. She has told police she didn't know how she got to Mississippi.

Stan Niccolls of the Boise Police Department said Adams apparently made three cash withdrawals, one in Idaho and two in Wyoming. On Saturday, she appeared at the door of a home in Clara, Miss.

Wayne County, Mississippi, sheriff's deputy Michael Patton said Adams is lucky the same people lived at the house as in the 1960s.

Adams' husband told the Idaho Statesman newspaper he had no reason to believe Cynthia would simply disappear. The couple hadn't fought, and though she had health problems, she didn't have issues with her memory.

On Thursday, she was officially a missing person. On Friday, there was no update. But when Tina Brewer opened the Clara Grocery on Saturday morning, in walked Adams.

"She told us that she had got in at 1 o'clock in the morning and slept in her truck the night before," Brewer said. "She looked like somebody who'd been up all night. It was kinda strange."

She started listing names, Brewer said, and though Brewer didn't know the people she was talking about, older men in the store did.

"She kinda knew everybody they knew, she'd say first names and they'd say last names," Brewer said.

She asked for the McCarty girls. One man asked her, do you mean Bug?

She did indeed mean Bug, who married and became Elizabeth Singleton and who grew up with her given name, Elizabeth McCarty.

Adams gave her the story in fits and starts. She couldn't remember her family in Idaho, but she did remember the people she grew up with. So Singleton turned to Facebook, where she found old classmates from Adams' Mississippi days.