A woman who jumped out of a car and ran away from her husband after he tried to admit her to a mental health center this morning was found dead a few hours later, according to the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office.

Sheriff’s investigators do not suspect foul play in the death of Elizabeth A. Pollack, 36, of Port St. Lucie, according to a sheriff’s report.

Construction workers found her body shortly after 9 a.m. under a pine tree at a construction site near the New Horizons community mental health center off Midway Road in St. Lucie County.

Earlier, around 6 a.m., deputies were called to a Shell gas station in the St. Lucie West neighborhood of Port St. Lucie and found Pollack there, dazed and incoherent and possibly under the influence of drugs, according to the sheriff’s report.

They called her husband, Daniel Pollack, who picked her up. He later told deputies he tried to drive his wife to the New Horizons center to check her in, but she jumped out of the car and ran away. He was unable to find her.

The St. Lucie County Medical Examiner’s Office conducted an autopsy and sent tissue samples to a lab to determine cause of death, according to the report.

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