A missing Wyoming man with dementia is safe after being spotted on TV hundreds of miles away

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Wyoming man with dementia who wandered away from home and hitchhiked to Salt Lake City is safe after his wife spotted him in a TV news segment about helping those in need.

Ninety-one-year-old Michael Black ended up at Rescue Mission of Salt Lake, over 200 miles (320 kilometers) away from the couple's home in Afton in western Wyoming's Star Valley.

After arriving at the shelter, Black was recorded in a KSL News segment about feeding people in need at Thanksgiving time. The Salt Lake City station's broadcast zone extends into Wyoming, where Avril Black happened to be tune...

 

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