NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A Colorado mom missing for two months has reportedly been found living on New York City streets.
Alyssa Olivier, 39, of Denver, went missing shortly after arriving in New York City on Aug. 2 while on a road trip to the city — only to be spotted living on city streets two months later, on Oct. 14, according to a report in the New York Post.
Olivier earlier this summer drove her 2000 Suzuki Grand Vitara to see her family in Kansans and friends in New York, but she fell out of contact with her family in early August after arriving in the city, leaving her relatives worried.
“We are terrified,” Kristie Olivier, Alyssa’s mother, told The Post. “She is in a state where she’s not entirely coherent. … We don’t know if we are dealing with a health issue, a mental health issue or something else. She’s been without any means of support for two months. Who knows what she has encountered on the streets?”
Olivier, an artist with a 10-year-old daughter, had seemingly abandoned her car, which was found with a dead battery and empty gas tank on Aug. 9 on Third Avenue, between 20th and 21st Streets, leaving her belongings behind, according to a report in Patch.
After an extended period of silence, a private investigator hired by the family discovered Olivier had attempted to call her husband from two different LinkNYC kiosks on Aug. 29, the Post reported.
Eventually, the investigator and a friend of Olivier’s tracked her down near Tompkinsville Park on Oct. 14 — but couldn’t get her to leave with them after a 10- to 12-minute conversation, the investigator, Rock Pereira, told the paper.
“We can’t just put her in a strait jacket and send her to Bellevue Hospital,” Pereira said. “The entire situation is delicate. But she does need help.”
The family is asking anyone who sees Olivier to contact the number on her missing poster.