Elba Portillo Obituary, Death; – The individual discovered deceased in the water beneath a bridge in a river that flows into Boston Harbor on Saturday morning has been confirmed as a missing woman from East Boston, according to prosecutors on Sunday.
Elba Portillo had been unaccounted for for several weeks, prompting her family to seek assistance in locating the 61-year-old. The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office informed NBC10 Boston and Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra that there were no obvious signs of foul play in Portillo’s death. Further details were not immediately available.
Her family communicated to Telemundo that they plan to send Portillo’s remains to El Salvador. They had previously mentioned that she experienced insomnia and might have been in the early stages of dementia. The body was located in the water beneath the McArdle Bridge, which links East Boston and Chelsea, as reported by Boston police on Saturday.
