Troy woman found in bottom of ravine
NORTH GREENBUSH, N.Y. » A Troy woman reported missing Sunday is recovering after being found at the bottom of a ravine later in the day.
Town police Chief Robert Durivage said Susan M. Cramer-Machia, 37, who lives on 2nd Avenue in Troy, was reported missing after she was last seen walking out of the Cumberland Farms store at 499 North Greenbush Road about 2 a.m. Sunday. She was located about 5:50 p. m. Sunday by members of the North Greenbush Police Department and state police investigators at the bottom of a ravine across from the Sunoco convenience store on Route 4.
“At the time she was located … she was barely conscious,” Durivage said in a news release. “At least nine police officers, combined from North Greenbush Police and the New York State Police [Bureau of Criminal Investigations] removed her approximately 30 feet from the bottom of the ravine up to the street for the fire and ambulance crews.
Cramer- Machia was taken by North Greenbush Ambulance to Albany Medical Center, where Durivage said she is being treated for severe hypothermia.
“I call it perseverance by law enforcement,” Durivage said of the successful search, “cross your ‘ T’s and dot your ‘ I’s, and then go back and do it again. That’s what we did in this investigation. Earlier in the day, we searched areas with search dogs, and also had a New York State Police aviation helicopter deployed, but did not locate Mrs. Machia. Our investigative team then decided to expand the search and started checking other possible paths that Mrs. Machia could have taken. We knew that time was of the essence, and we weren’t going to wait for daylight.”