Lisa Theris, the Alabama woman who was lost the woods for close to a month has spoken about her ordeal on TV.
Theris was found by a driver on Highway 82 on Aug. 12. after having spent 28 days eating wild berries and mushrooms, and drinking puddle water. She was completely naked, emaciated, and covered in insect bites.
By the time Theris was found, she had lost 40 lbs.
“Of course I got sick often, but I did what I had to do to survive. I just knew I had to get home to my family,” the 25-year-old told a TV audience on This Morning.
Theris says that she has no recollection of how she ended up in the dense forest of Bullock County.
“What I do remember is just waking up naked in the woods, not knowing how I got there,” she said.
Theris described the difficulty she faced when trying to navigate her way out of the forest. This was particularly challenging for Theris, who is classified as legally blind due to a chronic eye condition. For the entire 28 days, Theris was never more than 1 mile away from the nearest road.
“Everything looked the same” without glasses or contact lenses, Theris explained. “Anything further than right in front of me, I couldn’t see at all. It was very blurry.”
Theris is currently working with the authorities to clear up the details related to her disappearance.
The case has baffled investigators due to a combination of odd circumstances. Investigators now suspect that Theris got lost in the woods and couldn’t find her way back out because she was high on methamphetamine, Crime Online reported.
“She was probably so under the influence of drugs that she stripped her clothes off,” said Sheriff Raymond Rogers of Bullock County Alabama. “She was in a strange place, she came to, she didn’t know where she was. I don’t know how much drugs she took but I believe she was in there the whole time.”
When asked about how she came to be lost in the woods, Theris says, “I believe that I was drugged and dropped off by people who I thought were my friends.”
Theris might be referring to the two men—Randall Wade Oswald, 36, and Manley Green Davis, 31—who she was seen with just prior to her disappearance. The trio are known to law enforcement due to previous arrests for theft and drug-related offences.
Earlier in June, Theris had herself been arrested and charged for disorderly conduct after she interrupted a court hearing, and told deputies that she didn’t have to cooperate with their instructions, reported Crime Online.
While Theris was still missing, the authorities arrested Oswald and Davis in relation to the robbery of a hunting lodge where $40,000 worth of goods had been stolen.
When authorities questioned the men in relation to Theris’s disappearance, they started blaming each other for killing her.
“They were so geeked out that they started blaming each other for a murder that didn’t happen,” Sheriff Rogers told the Daily Mail.
Strangely, one man told investigators that the other had shot Theris in the head and disposed of her body in a creek. As a result of the claim, authorities deployed diving teams and cadaver dogs in a futile search for her body.
“They were as relieved as we were when she walked out of those woods. They were thinking they killed her,” said Sheriff Rodgers.
Both men are currently in jail for first degree theft of property and third degree burglary.
It has been revealed that Theris’s family and friends had recently become concerned that she was mixing with a bad crowd getting involved with drugs and petty criminals, reported the Daily Mail.
Theris and her ex-boyfriend, Duston Reed, had broken up in February. Reed told the Daily Mail he felt Theris had not been in a good state of mind since.
“I think she took the split pretty bad. We stayed real close, we talked about getting back together. But I did have concerns though that she was staying out late, mixing with the wrong people,” Reed said. “I didn’t have a job at that time and I wasn’t able to look after her financially.’
Theris is now back home with her family, and is recovering well after her life-threatening ordeal. She told WSFA, “I’m just so thankful. I just praise God and I’m so happy to be here right now.”
From NTD.tv
