The family of missing 79-year-old Ruth Carol Sutton are working with RCMP to confirm whether the woman seen in recent CCTV footage is the New Brunswick resident.
The video shows a person wearing a blue coat walking towards a ferry beside the water in Grand Bay-Westfield — the Saint John suburb where Sutton disappeared on Sunday.
RCMP are also looking for input from the public.
“We’re wondering, anyone that was around that area on Sunday afternoon … that may be holding something in their right hand, walking the area, reading maybe. Was that person you?” said Const. Patrick Jolin-Rodrigue, incident commander, on Tuesday.
“Because if the person was not Carol, well, it’s important for us to know because right now we’re directing some efforts into that area because it’s evidence to us. It’s a likelihood that this is Carol walking towards the ferry.”
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Sutton, who goes by the name Carol, is described as five-foot-two-inches tall, 130 pounds, with white …