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[scotttie]

So sad.

[stilltamn8r]

YEs she was obviously suffering rom mental illness- A Medical Residency is so stressful anyway, I can only imagine how much more so when trying to deal with this type of adversity-

[betteb]

On 4/7/2014 stilltamn8r said:

YEs she was obviously suffering rom mental illness- A Medical Residency is so stressful anyway, I can only imagine how much more so when trying to deal with this type of adversity-

Yes she was. Here are a couple of excerpts from an article I found.

The tweets also indicated that Patrick was worried that she was having a mental breakdown and losing touch with realty. Her final tweets the day before her disappearance indicated she felttortured by a "demonic power."

The body found Sunday was in a lake a few hundred yards from where the car was found. The lake had been searched as recently as April 1, to no avail. But early Sunday morning, a fisherman saw the body -- described as a female dressed in dark clothes -- floating on the water.

Entire article http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2014/04/teleka_patrick_disappearance_f.html

What a shame. SMH

[lovesrecess]

anyone could have posted those tweets on her account if there was foul play....but it is a very tragic end either way.

[betteb]

On 4/7/2014 upsidedown said:

anyone could have posted those tweets on her account if there was foul play....but it is a very tragic end either way.

If someone was posting as her, they were really involved for a long time. Did you read the rest of the article? Lots more there.

[muttmom]

I just heard on the news, it's been confirmed, the body is Teleka Patrick.

[shesallthat]

KALAMAZOO, Ind. (WOOD) — The body pulled Sunday from a northern Indiana lake is that of missing Kalamazoo doctor Teleka Patrick, Indiana State Police confirmed Wednesday.

During a news conference Wednesday, Kalamazoo County Sheriff Richard Fuller said it appeared that Patrick, 30, accidentally drowned in Lake Charles in Porter, Ind.

Fuller said authorities think Patrick, a first-year psychiatry resident at Borgess Medical Center, left Kalamazoo of her own free will on the night of Dec. 5, 2013. Her car was found later that night off I-94 near Porter, not far from Lake Charles.

Authorities believe Patrick drove for about two hours to Porter, got a flat tire and got out of the car along the highway. She then became lost, Fuller said, and accidentally wandered into the lake.

“(She) was found at that point five months and a day, to the day, in that same location, with no indications of any trauma. No indications of anything other than a possible accidental drowning,” Fuller said.

Car keys, a pager and the $100 a co-worker gave her on Dec. 5 were also recovered at the lake, according to Fuller.

Lake Charles is about 50 yards from busy I-94, separated by a barbed wire fence.

Foul play is not suspected, Fuller said. Officials are still waiting on toxicology results, but Fuller said they don’t believe the results will reveal anything new.

[betteb]

What a shame At least now maybe her family can grieve and get some closure