Emma Tetewsky is slowly recovering in hospital and is expected to be okay after she was stuck in the mud in a state park for at least three days.
Tetewsky, 31, was reported missing on June 26. Her parents told WBZ-TV she left her home in Stoughton, Massachusetts on Sunday night and left her cell phone in her bedroom. When she didn’t return, they knew something was wrong. After several days, they began to lose faith.
“So many times this type of story ends sadly and I didn’t have much hope at all. I thought she would have already succumbed to the elements,” Emma’s father, Avran Tetewsky, told WBZ.
On Monday evening, police were called to Borderland State Park in Easton. Hikers told them they heard a woman screaming in a swamp. The hikers couldn’t reach her but were able to point officers in the right direction. Three Easton police officers waded through the swamp and were able to pull her from the mud and carry her out safely.
“She called out for help. She said ‘I need help.’ I’m still in disbelief after a week that she could even do that because she didn’t have food and she’s pretty dehydrated,” her mother Barbara Zinaman, told WBZ.
“It was traumatic to be stuck in the mud for as long as she was,” Barbara said. “It’s miraculous that they found her.”
“I want to thank everybody that’s texted, called, emailed, showed love and concern,” Zinaman said. “The search rescue teams and the county.”
“All the community people who trekked through the woods with their dogs and of course these hikers, she wouldn’t have been found,” Emma’s father told WBZ.
The family says Tetewsky has several mental challenges but loves to nature walk. She was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital in Brockton with injuries police said are serious, but not life-threatening.
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