An 85-year-old retired Navy veteran with dementia was identified by his daughter as the man found on Mary Jo Drive early Friday morning.
Sherman F. Davis got out of the house undetected in the middle of the night, she said.
Douglas County investigators canvassed the neighborhood in the southern portion of the Gardnerville Ranchos in an effort to trace the last steps of an elderly man who was found dead along a road early this morning.
Douglas County Dispatch received a call around 5:35 a.m. for a report of a man down in the 1300 block of Mary Jo Drive just west of Long Valley Road.
The road was closed on either side of where the man was found.
No official identity or cause of death for the man had been released as of Saturday morning.