Remains of Missing Storrs Woman Found in Japan

Missing woman's remains found two years after her trip to Japan

"Although we had tried to prepare ourselves for this outcome, the finality of this news is heartbreaking," Patricia Wu-Murad's family wrote on Facebook.

Remains found in Japan confirmed to be missing hiker from Connecticut

HARTFORD, Conn. — The remains of a missing hiker from Storrs were recently found in Japan more than two years after she went missing on a hike. On Friday, her family received confirmation that she was dead, her husband, Kirk…

Human remains found in Japan ID’d as CT woman missing since 2023

The remains of a Connecticut woman who vanished while hiking in Japan over two years ago have been identified, her family said Saturday. Patricia “Pattie” Wu-Murad, of Storrs, went missing while hiking the Kumano Kodo trail in central Japan on April 10, 2023. She was last seen checking out of a guesthouse around 7 a.m. The 60-year-old mother of three was described by her husband of 33 years, Kirk Murad, as an experienced hiker who had traveled e…

Remains of missing Storrs woman found in Japan

STORRS, Conn. (WTNH) — Pattie Wu-Murad, the Connecticut woman who went missing in Japan in 2023, has been found and declared dead, according to her family. Wu-Murad went missing on April 10, 2023 while on a solo hiking trip in Japan. A search effort involved multiple agencies, but nothing was found until September 2024, when a fisherman found Wu-Murad's backpack and one hiking shoe. The items were found near a stream closer to a different trail …

Remains found in Japan confirmed to be missing hiker from CT

The remains of a missing hiker from Storrs were recently found in Japan more than two years after she went missing on a hike. On Friday, her family received confirmation that she was dead, her husband, Kirk Murad, said. On April 27, a member of the original American search and rescue team who had searched for Pattie Wu-Murad in 2023, returned to the area where a backpack and a shoe and other items belonging to Wu-Murad had been found last Septem…

Remains found in Japan confirmed to be missing hiker from Storrs: family

More than two years after a woman from Storrs went missing while hiking in Japan, investigators have found her remains and confirmed her death, according to her family. Pattie Wu-Murad went missing on April 10, 2023, while hiking in the Nara Prefecture in central Japan. She was last seen checking out of the Mandokoro guest house around 7 a.m. After she went missing, local police conducted a 72-hour search with officers and helicopters, but were …