UPDATE: Endangered senior found safe
UPDATE: This person has been found and is safe as of June 16.
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is seeking the public’s help in locating a missing and endangered senior, according to a post on X from the department.
The CBI said Merilou Athens-Barnekow, 86, was last seen Saturday around 12 p.m. in the 20000 block of Deputy Point in Hanover.
She was driving her silver 2005 Dodge Caravan, with Florida license plate number CF67SD.
Athens-Barnekow has brown hair, hazel eyes and is 5’4″, 110 lbs. She was last seen wearing a blue button up blouse and blue jean shorts. She has undiagnosed cognitive impairment and left her cellphone at her residence, the department said.
The CBI said she is new to the state and is unfamiliar with the area.
If you see her or know her whereabouts, call 911 or the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office at 719-390-5555.






