{"id":49150,"date":"2021-06-11T08:59:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T12:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=49150"},"modified":"2021-06-11T08:59:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T12:59:34","slug":"missing-lehigh-acres-woman-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/06\/missing-lehigh-acres-woman-found-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Lehigh Acres woman found dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office says it found missing woman Elena Barrabi dead Thursday, and an unsuspicious death investigation is underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There is no further information at this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ORGINAL STORY BELOW:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A family is hoping to find their loved one safe and sound after she went missing earlier this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elena Barrabi\u2019s daughter said her mom has been struggling with her mental health, including anxiety and depression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barrabi, 62, was last seen Sunday leaving a SalusCare facility where she was receiving help for those struggles. SalusCare gave her a bus ticket, but no one knows where she went or who she\u2019s with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office has said only that Barrabi\u2019s disappearance is not yet deemed suspicious, but they are asking for your help in finding her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barrabi\u2019s daughter, Daniella Paez, flew in from Georgia. While she has no idea where her mom is, she wants her back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI know I\u2019m positioned as best as I can be to find her,\u201d an emotional Paez said. \u201cAnd I hope that I find her alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frank Delgado is Barrabi\u2019s longtime partner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe\u2019s the best \u2026 I\u2019m telling you she\u2019s the best,\u201d he said through tears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI just wanna make sure she\u2019s OK, that\u2019s all I wanna know\u2026everyone wants to know.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SalusCare would not tell WINK News anything, not even if Barrabi had been there. The shelter next door said detectives stopped by but they too had not seen the woman. It was the same story at a different, nearby treatment center \u2013 more detectives with questions, but still, no one\u2019s seen Barrabi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe saw\u2026somebody who we thought could\u2019ve been her. We thought could\u2019ve been her, and then I find out today it\u2019s just been the wrong person the whole time,\u201d Paez said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While they don\u2019t know where Barrabi is or who she\u2019s with, if anyone, they do know her. She\u2019s warm, friendly, and talkative, they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI told her all my life, \u2018Honey, you\u2019re an easy target,’\u201d Delgado said. \u201cShe\u2019s so nice, goes to Publix; she talks to everyone, everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe\u2019ll give you the clothes off her back which is both a good thing and bad thing,\u201d Paez said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elena Barrabi was last seen wearing jeans and a beige and white T-shirt. She\u2019s 5\u20194\u2033 and weighs 180 pounds. If you have any information on her whereabouts, call the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office at 239-477-1000 or Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office says it found missing woman Elena Barrabi dead Thursday, and an unsuspicious death investigation is underway. There is no further information at this time. ORGINAL STORY… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[379],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49151,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49150\/revisions\/49151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}