Overview
- A police helicopter spotted the couple's car at the Rhin in Brandenburg, and officers found the 91-year-old inside alive and took her to hospital.
- The husband had earlier been found alone in Kremmen without the vehicle and could not say where he left it because of severe dementia.
- He told police the car got stuck and that he walked off to find help, leaving his wife in the passenger seat.
- Investigators had circulated a missing-person alert with a photo and traced the pair to Lübeck on a toll-tunnel video.
- Police said the woman is highly demented, almost blind, and unable to walk, which left her in an acutely helpless state when left in the car.