{"id":1475848,"date":"2026-02-07T15:59:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T21:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1475848"},"modified":"2026-02-10T16:06:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:06:38","slug":"officials-seek-missing-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1475848","title":{"rendered":"Missing woman died of exposure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/01\/woodcounty-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1475851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/01\/woodcounty-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/01\/woodcounty-349x350.jpg 349w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/01\/woodcounty.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> The Wood County Sheriff\u2019s Office said that a missing woman was found dead in a wooded area on Saturday morning. Dispatch received a call on Friday night about an abandoned car they saw stuck on a Wood County Electric Cooperative power line right of way path near County Road 4539 according to the sheriff\u2019s office and our news partner KETK.<\/p>\n<p>The car was determined to belong to 76-year-old Laurie Harberson who was last seen on Jan. 23 near Winnsboro. Deputies searched the area around the car on Friday night but nothing was found until a more intensive search with UTV\u2019s and a K9 was done on Saturday morning. Harberson was found dead during the Saturday morning search, about a half mile away from the right of way path in a densely wooded area. The sheriff\u2019s office believes she died of exposure to the recent winter weather that came through East Texas.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>WOOD COUNTY \u2014 The Wood County Sheriff\u2019s Office is asking for the public\u2019s help in locating a missing elderly woman last seen Jan. 23.  According to our news partner KETK, 76-year-old Laurie Harberson was last seen driving on County Road 4560 near Winnsboro. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities said Harberson was driving a white 2019 Honda HR-V with license plate LMS0086 and a silver Longhorns sticker on the back. They add she left home without her cellphone or wallet and may be in a confused state. Anyone with information about Harberson\u2019s whereabouts is asked to contact the Wood County Sheriff\u2019s Office at 903-763-2201.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: The Wood County Sheriff\u2019s Office said that a missing woman was found dead in a wooded area on Saturday morning. Dispatch received a call on Friday night about an abandoned car they saw stuck on a Wood County Electric Cooperative power line right of way path near County Road 4539 according to the sheriff\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1475848\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Missing woman died of exposure<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1476229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/01\/woodcounty-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1475848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 02:11:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/01\/woodcounty-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1475848"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1479452,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475848\/revisions\/1479452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1476229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1475848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1475848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1475848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}