Crime & Safety

Sewickley Heights Police Search for Naked Woman

Woman seen walking through the cemetery.

A naked woman seen strolling through a cemetery over the weekend was enough cause for someone to pick up the phone and dial 911.

responded shortly after 4:15 p.m. Saturday to the St. James Cemetery after receiving a report through Allegheny County emergency dispatchers of a naked woman walking around.

Sewickley Heights Police Chief Herb Ford said the only description police received was that the woman was elderly. She also proved to be elusive.

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Officers, with assistance from and , searched the cemetery off Water Works Road and checked around the nearby Fern Hollow Nature Center, but after 30 minutes, they were unable to find her, he said. 

“They looked for her, but didn’t see anyone around,” Ford said. “Hopefully she went back home.” 

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