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Woman missing from Gloucester Twp. psychiatric hospital

These photos show Cheryl Keys (bottom right), who is missing from a South Jersey psychiatric hospital, as well as the woman she left the facility with (left) and the woman's vehicle (top right). (Photos courtesy of Gloucester Township police)
These photos show Cheryl Keys (bottom right), who is missing from a South Jersey psychiatric hospital, as well as the woman she left the facility with (left) and the woman's vehicle (top right). (Photos courtesy of Gloucester Township police)Read more

Officials are looking for a woman who went missing after leaving a South Jersey psychiatric hospital with an unidentified woman who wasn't a known family member.

Gloucester Township police said this morning that 51-year-old Cheryl Keys remains missing nearly three weeks after she signed herself out from the Northbrook Behavioral Health Hospital with a day pass.

Authorities believed she left the hospital, located at 425 Woodbury Turnersville Road in Blackwood, with a family member at 10:45 a.m. on Nov. 13.

However, Keys never returned to the facility and investigators later determined that the woman she departed with wasn't a known relative, police said.

Keys appeared to leave the hospital with the woman willingly, authorities said.

Keys was described as black, 5 feet, 4 inches tall and weighing 250 pounds. She has brown hair, and was wearing matching black pants and a zip-up jacket with white stripes when she left the hospital. She was also wearing sneakers and carrying another jacket.

The woman she left the facility with was wearing a gray jacket, blue shirt and blue jeans. She was driving a red, four-door car.

Keys is known to spend time in Camden.

Anyone with information is asked to call police at 856-228-4500 or the department's anonymous tip line at 856-842-5560.