The family of Donna Miller confirmed on Tuesday that the 61-year-old woman had been found dead by police. She had been missing for five days.

Harrington Police said Miller walked away from her home on Oct. 23 and hadn't been seen by her family since then.

Miller suffered from dementia, police said.

On Monday, police deployed search and rescue teams, aided by K-9 units, throughout the city of Harrington and surrounding areas to search for Miller.

The department asked community members and hunters to assist in the search by looking in buildings and wooded areas for the woman.

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On Tuesday afternoon, Delaware State Police said they were dispatched to a farm located on the 8000 block of Vernon Road (Del. 14) at around 12:23 p.m. A body was found in a ditch, police said.

The family confirmed it was her.

A farmer was mowing by the ditch and saw the body, said Theresa Miller, one of Donna Miller's family members.

She said there were no outward signs of foul play.

"We suspect that she got lost in the dark when she wandered off in the middle of the night and kept walking until she fell in the ditch," Theresa Miller said. "She would have been too weak to get herself out. It was perhaps a mile from her house."

Harrington police spokesman Lt. Earl Brode said Wednesday that the body recently found wore clothes that matched the general description of Miller.

The body was turned over to the Delaware Division of Forensic Science for an autopsy to determine the cause of death.

Police say the investigation is in its early stages. Further information will be released as it becomes available.

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