{"id":357857,"date":"2025-11-05T16:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/357857\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T16:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:56:11","slug":"car-belonging-to-dallas-woman-missing-for-over-a-year-found-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/357857\/","title":{"rendered":"Car belonging to Dallas woman missing for over a year found, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vehicle belonging to a Dallas woman who has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/myrtle-polk-missing-oak-cliff\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">missing for over a year<\/a> was found this week, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Dallas Police Department said 88-year-old Myrtle Polk&#8217;s vehicle was found in the 5600 block of South Lancaster Road, near Five Mile Creek, on Tuesday. Her body was not in the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>DPD said search teams will deploy in the area to continue the search for Polk.<\/p>\n<p>She was last seen in early June along Indian Creek Trail, driving her Lexus sedan. At the time, a Silver Alert was issued, given her age and medical history, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n<p>Myrtle Polk known as a pillar of her community<\/p>\n<p>Polk is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/wheres-myrtle-polk-oak-cliff-community-rallies-to-find-missing-woman\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">devout member of her church<\/a>, according to her family. When she didn&#8217;t show up for service on June 9, 2024, they said they knew something was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Also affectionately known as &#8220;Mama M&#8221; or &#8220;Aunt Myrt,&#8221; Polk is living with dementia. But her niece Tawana Watson   said \u2014 as late as the day before \u2014 the family did not indicate that anything was wrong.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was a very good driver, she knew where she was,&#8221; Watson said last June. &#8220;I talked to her that Friday [and] she was in her right mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watson does not believe the matriarch left home on her own.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was such a trustworthy person, I believe that Aunt Myrtle met somebody that she trusted, she let them [into her home] and they hurt her,&#8221; she continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Myrtle Polk is approximately 5-foot-2 and 120 pounds, with white hair and brown eyes. Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or the Dallas Police Department at (214) 671-4268.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The vehicle belonging to a Dallas woman who has been missing for over a year was found this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":357858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,5425,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-357857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-missing-person","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115498148590772700","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}