BEAVERTON, Ore. - Surveillance cameras at Beaverton's Maryville Nursing Home caught a woman on camera, posing as a resident's granddaughter, then as an employee. Now the administrators at the nursing home want to find her, to figure out why she snuck in, and why she spent at least three evenings with one of their residents.

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The suspect (left) caught on surveillance tape.

That resident told her son, Jim Cole, about the incidents. Cole said, "She was telling mom she was her granddaughter. She was telling everyone here she was her granddaughter." Jim called his niece, who said she had not been to the home in several weeks. So Jim decided to do his own surveillance.

"I thought, I'll come and hang out and see what happens," Jim said. He spent the evening with his mother, when he said the woman walked in. "Said, 'hi grandma,'" Jim said. "And my mom kinda looked back. [I said], 'who the heck are you?'"

Jim said the woman was wearing scrubs, and tried to explain that she was there to give the resident a massage. But when Jim asked for identification, he said the woman bolted. "I said, 'where's your nametag?' She looked down and said, 'I don't have a nametag.' She just darted out of the room so fast, by the time I got... down the hall, she was nowhere to be seen. I took off down the hall and came out here and she was nowhere. Nowhere around."

At the same time, workers at the home didn't find anything missing. No one has idea what the woman was doing there.

Police say it's possible the woman was trying to develop an indentity profile on that resident, in an ID theft scheme.

"I've been in the business for over 20 years. I've not had this kind of a situation before," said the home's administrator, Kathleen Parry. "Just a very odd behavior from this woman."

The nursing home is in lockdown now between 8 at night and 8 in the morning. Staff is at the door during the day.

"I'll find her," Jim said. "Somebody will find her. If I don't find her, Beaverton [Police] will."