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- Tomis Hoyt was last seen in Maine in July — and was “believed to have been barefoot” and “without any money”
- On Oct. 30, human remains were discovered in Blaine, which were later identified as the missing mom of two
- “For the love of God, come home,” her aunt said shortly after she went missing
The remains of a missing mother of two, who was last seen walking barefoot on a Maine roadway in July, have been identified.
On Wednesday, Nov. 12, Maine State Police police announced that human remains located in Blane late last month had been identified by Maine’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner as belonging to Tomis Hoyt, 36.
Her cause and manner of death are still pending and an investigation is ongoing.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the Maine State Police and the Aroostook County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s requests for additional comment.
The agony for the woman’s family began on Sunday, July 13.
Hoyt, who hailed from Presque Isle, was last seen on Robinson Road in Mars Hill in Blaine, a town of about 650 people in northern Maine, the Aroostook County Sheriff’s Office said in a news alert later that month.
When she disappeared, she was “believed to have been barefoot, without any money,” the sheriff’s office said.
Video surveillance showed Hoyt walking on the road that Sunday without shoes and wearing an orange-pink colored tank top and ripped jeans, CBS affiliate WAGM reported.
Just over a week later, her family told the outlet that Hoyt had been sober for nearly a decade, but had issues with mental health and addiction.
“We’re her family, and we are the kind of help that she needs right now,” Hoyt’s aunt, Selena Hoyt Belser, told WAGM, “and we need to get her back, and we need to get her right.”
Selena said that it was unlike her niece to cut off all contact and that they were incredibly close.
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“Right now, the family is very concerned about her whereabouts,” Sheriff Peter Johnson of the Aroostook County Sheriff’s Office told WAGM. “We’re trying to do the best that we can as far as being able to keep them up-to-date, and hopefully be able to provide them with some information.”
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“For the love of God, come home,” Selena told WAGM in July. “We want you to come home, Tomi.”
