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DALLAS<\/strong> – Authorities in New Mexico found the bodies of an elderly couple from Texas who had been missing since Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n What’s new:<\/p>\n The Carson County Sheriff\u2019s Office said 82-year-old Charles “Gary” Lightfoot and 81-year-old Linda Lightfoot were found dead on Tuesday in a rural area of New Mexico near Tucumcari.<\/p>\n They were near their car in a pasture and are believed to have died from hypothermia, according to ABC 7 in Amarillo<\/a>.<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n “We would like to thank the public and all agencies involved. We would also like to offer condolences to the family and friends of the Lightfoots as this is a tragic event,” the Carson County Sheriff\u2019s Office said on social media.<\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n A Silver Alert was issued last week for the Lightfoots.<\/p>\n The couple went missing in their silver 2024 Toyota Camry after visiting friends in Panhandle, Texas for the holiday. They left around 3 p.m. on Friday but never made it home to Lubbock.<\/p>\n Authorities were worried about their safety because neither had a cellphone, and Gary was oxygen dependent.<\/p>\n Their car was also spotted on camera in Groom, Texas and then in Santa Rosa, New Mexico the next day.<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> The information in this story comes from the Carson County Sheriff’s Office, Texas DPS, and ABC 7 in Amarillo.<\/p>\n Texas<\/a>Missing Persons<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article DALLAS – Authorities in New Mexico found the bodies of an elderly couple from Texas who had…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":421552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,6082,7371,7372,8324,50,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-421551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-missing-persons","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115655062026315923","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421551","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=421551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}