Crime & Safety

Missing Elderly Woman Found Dead in Burke: Police

She was found about 6 a.m. Tuesday in a pond by Fairfax County Police. She'd been reported missing fewer than two hours earlier.

BURKE, VA — A 67-year-old woman reported missing early Tuesday morning from a home in the 6100 block of Meadow Pond Court was found dead in a nearby pond around 6 a.m., according to Fairfax County Police.

Frances Robinson had last been seen around midnight in the home, and her family couldn't find her when they awoke around 4:30 a.m.

She wasn't wearing a jacket, police said, and temperatures were below freezing Monday night.

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