The body of a woman who fell into a sinkhole was found Friday, four days after she went missing while searching for her cat, a state police spokeswoman said Friday.
Trooper Steve Limani said the body of 64-year-old Elizabeth Pollard was taken to the Westmoreland County Coroner's Office for an autopsy.
Officials scheduled a mid-afternoon news conference to provide additional details.
The announcement came on the fourth day of the search for Pollard. Pollard was last seen searching for her cat near a restaurant about half a mile from her home in Marguerite Village on Monday night.
Pollard's family reported her missing around 1 a.m. Tuesday as temperatures in the area dropped below freezing.
The search focused on a sinkhole that began as a manhole-sized gap and may have recently opened over an area where coal was mined about 70 years ago.
Hunters and restaurant workers who were in the area in the hours before Pollard disappeared told police they did not notice the sinkhole.
Police said Pollard's car was parked about 20 feet from the sinkhole, where they found her 5-year-old granddaughter sleeping inside.
The effort to find Pollard included lowering a pole camera with sensitive eavesdropping equipment into the hole, but nothing was detected.
Crews removed large amounts of dirt and rocks to try to reach where the wreck appeared to have fallen into the 30-foot-deep fissure.
Pollard grew up in Janet, about 12 miles (19 kilometers) from Unity Township, and spent most of his adult life there.
She previously worked at Walmart and was married for over 40 years.
