UPDATE 3: 6:38 a.m. Stapf was located outside on the 1600 block of Jancey Street after having fallen. She is alert and conscious and was transported by EMS to UPMC Presbyterian for further evaluation.
UPDATE 2: 6:25 a.m. 12/10/19 Beatrice Stapf has been located. EMS is responding to evaluate her condition.
UPDATE: Police have made a correction to the spelling of this woman's last name. It should read Stapf, not Staph.
Pittsburgh Bureau of Police officers from Zone 5 seek the public's assistance in locating a missing and endangered 83-year-old woman.
Beatrice Stapf is described as 5 feet 8 inches tall, 170 pounds with gray hair. She may be wearing a blue coat and it's possible that she may not have shoes on. Stapf wears a medical bracelet, but it was found in her home so she does not have it on.
She was last seen at 8 p.m. on December 9, 2019 at 1217 Chislett Street in Morningside.
Stapf has left home before, but never at night. Police are doing a street by street grid search stretching from Morningside, into Highland Park and East Liberty.
Anyone with information about Stapf's whereabouts is asked to call Pittsburgh Police Zone 5 at (412) 665-3605 or police headquarters at (412) 323-7800.
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