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00:00Four young children now in a Colombian hospital after somehow surviving on their own in the Amazon jungle for a staggering 40 days.
00:10Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most famous cases of people around the world who vanished, sometimes for decades, and were eventually located to answer the mysteries surrounding their disappearances.
00:22I got a text of his granddad saying that Melanie had said that all electronic equipment was being switched off, and at that point I knew. I knew they weren't coming back.
00:39Number 50, Lula Gillespie Miller.
00:42The disappearance of Lula Gillespie Miller.
00:44They've been wondering for years what happened to her.
00:47Lula was 28 years old when she mysteriously disappeared in 1974.
00:52In 1974, after having her third child at 28, Gillespie Miller signed over parental responsibility of them to her parents in Indiana before leaving.
01:01Beyond a letter the following year, the family had no contact with her.
01:06In 2014, the police investigated the body of an unidentified woman who had passed away in 1975, possibly answering the mystery of Gillespie Miller.
01:15However, the DNA results didn't match hers.
01:18Yet the officers followed a thread of evidence that led them to discover she was living under an assumed name in Texas in 2016.
01:26He located her living under an assumed name in a small town in Texas.
01:30She told the officers she felt too young to have kids, causing her to leave decades before.
01:36Despite finding Gillespie Miller, her daughter stated she didn't want a reunion due to her abandoning them.
01:41Number 49, Paisley Schultes.
01:44Paisley Schultes was found yesterday by police in Saugerties, about 130 miles from where she was reported missing back in 2019.
01:51The girl was hidden under a staircase at her non-custodial parents' home.
01:56In 2019, Paisley's parents, Kirk Schultes Jr. and Kimberly Cooper, lost custody of her, resulting in the child being put with relatives in Cayuga Heights, New York.
02:05However, Paisley was reported missing not too long after.
02:10The police visited Schultes and Cooper's home, which was owned by Paisley's grandfather, Kirk Schultes Sr.
02:15Without a search warrant and the family's denial that Paisley was there, nothing happened.
02:20Yet that changed in 2022.
02:23Following an additional anonymous tip, which led to a search warrant being issued,
02:27the police realized the staircase was unusual and spotted a blanket beneath it.
02:31After tearing it apart, they found Paisley, in good health, under the fabric alongside her mother.
02:37Now an update on the case of the girl found safe after being missing for more than two years.
02:42Paisley Schultes was four years old when she disappeared from Cayuga Heights in 2019 after her parents lost custody.
02:49While the family was charged, the case was reportedly dropped.
02:53Number 48, Abdul Aziz Khan.
02:56Abdul Aziz Khan went missing in Atlanta, and his mother, who did not have custody of the boy when he disappeared,
03:02is now one of two people in custody.
03:05In 2025, police in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, were alerted to a possible robbery at a vacant home.
03:11When they arrived, they spotted two children in a nearby car,
03:15soon followed by a man and a woman leaving the property.
03:18After providing false stories and names, it was discovered that the woman was Rabia Khalid,
03:23who was wanted for kidnapping her son Aziz, who was sitting in the car.
03:27After she broke up with his father, Abdul Khan, the duo shared custody.
03:31However, in 2017, Khalid and the man she was arrested with,
03:36her new husband, Elliot Blake Bourgeois, left Atlanta, Georgia and vanished with Aziz,
03:40as his father searched for him for years.
03:42This father has not had contact, he told me, for like a total of nine years.
03:47He has not seen Aziz.
03:48So this is the only life that Aziz has known, and so it is going to take some time.
03:55So it's baby steps to get up to that point.
03:57Unsurprisingly, Khalid and Elliot Blake Bourgeois were charged with several counts.
04:02Number 47.
04:04Blanche Monnier
04:04In 1876, after a line of suitors, socialite Blanche had decided who she wanted to marry.
04:11However, her mother Louise and brother Marcel were not happy with Blanche's choice.
04:15After an argument, Blanche vanished, and Louise and Marcel showed their dismay in public.
04:20However, following a tip in 1901, the police arrived at the family's residence in Poitiers, France.
04:27After breaking down the locked attic door, the officers discovered an emaciated Blanche.
04:32For 25 years, she had been held captive by her family in filthy conditions.
04:37Louise was quickly arrested, but passed away two weeks later.
04:41Marcel was sentenced for his involvement, yet was controversially acquitted on appeal.
04:46Blanche resided at a psychiatric hospital until her passing in 1913.
04:51Number 46.
04:52Arthur Gerald Jones
04:53In 1979, commodities broker Jones departed Chicago, Illinois, never to be seen again,
04:59leaving behind his three children and wife.
05:02It was speculated that he'd fallen into organized crime due to a gambling debt.
05:06In 1986, the authorities officially declared Jones deceased.
05:11However, he was fine.
05:12Following reported marriage issues, he relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada, and was using the identity
05:18of Joseph Sandeli.
05:20In 2008, the bookie grabbed the authorities' attention when he applied for a driver's license
05:25with a fake social security number.
05:27This led to Jones' arrest.
05:30After pleading guilty to fraud, Jones was ordered to pay restitution, including to the
05:34real Joseph Sandeli.
05:36He also received a suspended sentence of up to 48 months with three years of probation.
05:42Number 45.
05:43Philip Cesarego
05:44An enigma who used the pen name Tom Carew, but was also known as Philip Stevenson, Cesarego's
05:50life came crashing down in 2001.
05:53Shortly after becoming a best-selling author with his memoir about being in the UK's Special
05:57Air Service, better known as the SAS, during the Soviet-Afghan War, it was discovered the
06:02work was fabricated.
06:04While Cesarego was in the army, he was rejected from the Special Forces.
06:08With his newfound infamy, friends of Cesarego's then came forward with allegations that he'd
06:13faked his death in Bosnia in the early 90s, with additional rumors of doing the same in
06:17South Africa, too.
06:19Unsurprisingly, Cesarego's book was removed from sale.
06:22After moving to Belgium, Cesarego passed away in 2008.
06:26Number 44.
06:28Chioma Gray
06:29They want everyone to believe that this is a love story.
06:33This is a crime.
06:34In 2007, Andrew Tafoya had been released from a seven-month jail sentence the night before
06:39due to having a relationship with Gray, a minor.
06:42He drove up to her school in Ventura, California to pick her up, which was seen by witnesses.
06:47For her family, this was the last time they saw Gray for years.
06:51However, they contacted a private investigator, who tracked Tafoya and Gray living near Acapulco,
06:57Mexico. Shortly after, Tafoya called Gray's mother and claimed she was in trouble.
07:02The duo then handed themselves in to the U.S. Marshals. According to her family, Gray was
07:07experiencing Stockholm Syndrome, resulting in her and Tafoya getting married while in Mexico.
07:12Chioma is totally different. It's not my daughter. She's completely brainwashed.
07:16In 2012, Tafoya was sentenced to two years in jail.
07:21Number 43.
07:22Alicia Navarro
07:23A missing persons case from 2019 has been solved, but there are still a lot of questions about
07:29Alicia Navarro.
07:30In 2019, Navarro seemingly walked out of her home in Glendale, Arizona, leaving a note behind
07:36stating she was running away, but added that she would return.
07:39In 2023, the autistic teenager made good on her promise by walking into a Montana police station
07:46to close her missing persons case. Yet her family believes someone she met online caused
07:51her to leave the house years ago.
07:52We just want to make sure that you're safe.
07:55I don't, I don't, I don't, um, I understand that.
08:03The investigation found that Navarro had been living with Edmund Davis, who was nearly double
08:08her age. While searching his Montana residence, the cops found explicit material in his possession.
08:14In 2025, after Davis pleaded guilty to abuse, he was sentenced to 100 years in jail, half
08:20of which was suspended.
08:22Number 42.
08:23Lawrence Joseph Bader
08:25In 1957, Bader left his pregnant wife and three children to fish at Ohio's Lake Erie.
08:31When he didn't return, his damaged boat was found, yet there was no sign of Bader, who was
08:36discovered to be in around $20,000 of debt. In 1960, he was declared deceased, resulting
08:42in his wife receiving nearly $40,000 in life insurance. Days after Bader vanished, John Fritz
08:49Johnson arrived in Omaha, Nebraska. The eccentric newbie became popular with locals, resulting
08:54in Johnson becoming a TV personality for KETV, as well as getting married and having children.
09:00Yet in 1965, family members recognized Johnson as Bader. This led to him stating that he had
09:06amnesia, which was supported by psychologists. However, Bader passed away the following year.
09:13Number 41.
09:14Anna Saito
09:15In 2014, Saito was expected back home after school in Saitama, Japan. Instead, she never returned,
09:22with only a letter posted the day after asking the teenager's parents not to search for her.
09:26In reality, Saito had been abducted by Kabu Terauchi, who reportedly used her as an experiment
09:32to see what happens to people separated from society. After multiple failed escapes, Saito
09:38got her opportunity in 2016, when the apartment door was accidentally left unlocked. She managed
09:44to find a public payphone and call home. Terauchi was eventually found wandering a nearby forest
09:49with self-inflicted injuries. In 2018, despite him claiming mental health issues and declaring
09:55he was, quote, a fairy from the forest, Terauchi was sentenced to nine years in jail.
10:01Number 40.
10:02Andrea Michelle Reyes
10:03Helping a father reconnect with his abducted daughter more than a quarter of a century
10:08after her disappearance.
10:10Following the separation of her parents, Reyes' father was given custody of her. However, in
10:151999, the child was kidnapped by her mother, Rosa Tenorio, from her home in New Haven, Connecticut.
10:20With the belief that Reyes was taken to Mexico, her father went to the country to search for
10:25her, but he was unsuccessful in finding her. For nearly 25 years, he heard nothing from
10:31his daughter or Tenorio. Yet that changed in 2023. Following the police reinvestigating
10:37the case, a woman suspected to be Reyes was tracked down in Puebla, Mexico, and she contacted
10:42her possible father. The woman, then in her late 20s, was confirmed to be Reyes thanks to
10:48DNA testing in 2025. Police in New Haven, Connecticut, say she was abducted by her mother,
10:54who did not have legal custody of her in 1999. They fled to Mexico. Law enforcement tried to bring
11:00her home. Number 39.
11:02Winston Bright
11:03Winston Bright, a California telephone company worker, was declared legally dead by a court
11:09after he disappeared. But now he's apparently back among the living.
11:13With a wife and children, in 1990, Bright vanished in New York City, leading to him being declared
11:19dead in 2000. As such, Bright's wife, Leslie, began collecting his pension. Over 2,700 miles
11:25away in San Diego, California, a man seemingly had amnesia. With aid from a magazine, he selected
11:32the name Kwame Seku. Seku would go on to be a teacher before retiring. Around 2008, he remembered
11:39he was Bright. He returned to New York and met Leslie. However, according to her, Bright wanted
11:44his pension. As such, some in his family didn't believe his amnesia claim. After going through
11:50the courts and using DNA tests to prove he was Bright, he was legally declared alive. However,
11:56he decided not to claim the pension.
11:58He found himself wandering the streets of San Diego sometime between 1990 and 1991 without
12:04any identification, money, or recollection of how he got there. He says after a while,
12:09his memory began to return and he was able to track down his old identity with the help
12:13of the internet.
12:14Number 38. Edgar Latulip.
12:17This is a missing persons poster circulated 30 years ago when 21-year-old Edgar Latulip disappeared.
12:23For decades, a man had been getting flashes of memories of a life he hadn't lived. In 2016,
12:30when he arrived to meet a social worker in Niagara Falls, Canada, he finally remembered that
12:35Latulip was his real name. In 1986, Latulip, who had an intellectual disability, was living
12:42in a group home with similar people in Kitchener. He got on a bus to Niagara Falls, yet fell and
12:47sustained a head injury shortly after arriving, robbing him of his memory. During this time,
12:52Latulip's mother, Sylvia Wilson, believed her son was no longer alive. Yet once a DNA test confirmed
12:58his identity, she was desperate to see him again.
13:01What had occurred was a head injury, certainly after arriving in St. Catharines a number of years
13:07ago. And so effectively, he forgot who he was.
13:12Number 37. Savannah Todd.
13:14An infant who disappeared with her mother from South Carolina now found the girl's father
13:19never giving up hope of finding her. It's a search that ended on the other side of the world,
13:24literally. In 1994, Savannah's parents, Harris Todd and Dorothy Lee Barnett, were going through a
13:30divorce. Harris claimed Bennett had bipolar disorder, which she denied. Both sides were
13:35supported by medical professionals. After Barnett lost custody, she took Savannah from their home in
13:41Charleston, South Carolina, and with the aid of forged documents, traveled across several countries,
13:46eventually arriving in Australia. She even changed Savannah's name to Samantha.
13:51Harris stated he kept Savannah's bedroom untouched for all this time, as he had missing posters of
13:56her placed internationally. In 2013, with aid from the FBI and Australian authorities,
14:02Barnett and Savannah were found.
14:04This was not Barnett's first attempt to kidnap baby Savannah. Barnett has been arrested by Australian
14:09federal police and now faces extradition back to the United States. If convicted, she will serve up
14:15to 23 years in prison for international parental kidnapping and two counts of falsified
14:20passport application. After pleading guilty to multiple charges, Barnett was sentenced to 21 months
14:26in jail. Number 36, Sabrina Allen. In 2002, after splitting with her mother, Dara Lawrence,
14:34Greg Allen had primary custody of Sabrina. Yet their child was set to spend the weekend with
14:39Lawrence in Austin, Texas. However, she vanished with Sabrina. Greg put out a reward and hired a private
14:45investigator. After receiving word that Lawrence might be in Mexico, he went to the country to
14:50search, learning Spanish, and later getting married to his teacher. Eventually, in 2013,
14:56Sabrina and Lawrence were tracked down near Mexico City.
14:59Twelve years of his daughter's life was robbed from Greg Allen. But even when she was gone,
15:04she was always right up the stairs.
15:06This is Sabrina's room?
15:07This is Sabrina's room.
15:09However, as Greg said to the press afterwards, his daughter wasn't in great shape.
15:13Sabrina underwent extensive mental health treatment. She had also changed her name to
15:18Fair, which was once her middle name. In 2016, Lawrence was sentenced to six years in jail.
15:24Dara Lawrence received a six-year sentence for aggravated kidnapping and two years for
15:29interfering with child custody after taking her four-year-old daughter to Mexico. She was on the
15:35run for 12 years before being caught.
15:37Number 35, Alex Batty.
15:39The British boy who was missing for six years spoke out about what his life has been like.
15:45While Alex had his grandmother, Susan Caruana, as his legal guardian, it wasn't uncommon for him to
15:51go on vacation with his mother, Melanie Batty, and grandfather, David Batty. Yet in 2017, the trio
15:57didn't return to England from Spain as planned. Instead, they sent Caruana a video on Facebook about
16:03leaving. The trio traveled around, living in several countries, often in communes.
16:08In 2023, after becoming disillusioned with this life and wanting to return to the UK,
16:14Alex decided to leave their community in France. He was spotted by a delivery driver as he walked
16:19along a road near Shalab, later reuniting with Caruana. In 2025, at the request of Alex and his
16:25family, the police investigation into his mother and grandfather was dropped.
16:29I was safe and I was always healthy, but no social life, no meeting people my own age,
16:37kind of always being isolated comes... boring to say the least, really.
16:44Number 34, Colleen Stan.
16:47For me, this house is kind of a house of horror.
16:50She's the kidnap victim once known as the girl in the box,
16:54imprisoned for seven years in a wooden crate.
16:57In 1977, Stan was hitchhiking to Westwood, California. After rejecting multiple rides,
17:04husband and wife Cameron and Janice Hooker pulled over with their child.
17:07Seeing no threat, Stan got in. Not long into the journey, she was kidnapped by them.
17:13Stan was kept at their home, locked in a box, forced to sign a slavery contract,
17:18and subjected to abuse.
17:19Colleen's abductor was a lumber mill worker, Cameron Hooker.
17:23Occasionally, she was allowed to see her family, but she had to bring Cameron.
17:28Later, Janice admitted to Stan that she was also kidnapped,
17:31as was Marie Elizabeth Sponicky, whom she claimed Cameron killed.
17:35In 1984, Janice, with advice from a pastor whom she confessed to,
17:40got herself, her children, and Stan to the authorities.
17:43In 1985, Cameron was sentenced to 104 years in jail.
17:48Number 33. Thad Phillips
17:50July 29th, 1995. Thaddeus Phillips was just 13 and sound asleep.
17:59I was outside. I was being carried.
18:01He had been kidnapped.
18:02In 1995, Phillips was dozing at his family home in Baraboo, Wisconsin,
18:07when his father picked him up. However, it wasn't his dad. Instead, it was Joe Clark.
18:12The teenager, who was only a few years older than Phillips, took him to a nearby house.
18:17Once there, Clark, later known as the Bone Breaker due to his obsession,
18:21attacked Phillips' lower limbs.
18:23He pushed me back on my back, onto a bed, and he grabbed my ankle and he twisted it and broke it.
18:31Clark would later treat the damage, only to do it again.
18:34Two days later, Phillips was able to crawl to a phone downstairs to call the authorities.
18:39The police also found evidence that linked Clark to taking Christian Steiner's life the year before.
18:44In 1997, Clark was sentenced to 100 years and had to pay Phillips $21 million for medical costs.
18:52Number 32. Kamiah Mobley
18:54The name Kamiah Mobley, the case widely known across the country after Mobley was kidnapped
19:00from a Jacksonville hospital as a baby in 1998 and found safe, alive and well, 18 years later.
19:08In 1998, Kamiah Mobley had given birth to Kamiah eight hours ago in Jacksonville, Florida,
19:14when what appeared to be a nurse came in to take the baby.
19:17She then walked out of the hospital with Kamiah.
19:20The child was taken by Gloria Williams, who reportedly had a miscarriage the week before,
19:25was in an abusive relationship, and was struggling with her mental health.
19:29While Kamiah successfully sued the hospital for $1.5 million,
19:33Williams changed Kamiah's name to Alexis Manigo and raised her in South Carolina.
19:37In 2017, a series of tips caused the authorities to DNA test Kamiah, confirming her identity.
19:45While Williams was sentenced to 18 years in jail in 2018,
19:48Kamiah asked for leniency as she sees Williams as her mother.
19:52I never meant to hurt you.
19:55I just love that child so, and I hope you can find it in your heart and forgive me.
20:01Number 31. The Children of the Jungle
20:03Four young children found alive in a Colombian jungle 40 days after a small plane crash.
20:10In 2023, the Mukutui family, featuring the mother Magdalena and her four children,
20:15was traveling to meet Manuel Ranoque, the father of the two youngest in Colombia.
20:20However, their small airplane crashed in the Amazon rainforest.
20:24The pilot and an indigenous leader sadly perished immediately.
20:27Magdalena was severely injured, succumbing to her injuries days later.
20:31For 40 days, the children, led by the oldest and injured teenager,
20:35survived by themselves by consuming edible plants, fruit, and seeds,
20:39which they learned from their indigenous upbringing as part of the Huitoto community.
20:44While the children were emaciated when found by rescuers,
20:47the eldest child kept her siblings alive long enough.
20:50Rather than being reunited with Ranoque,
20:52he was sentenced to 32 years for abuse in 2025.
20:57Number 30. Paul Fronzac
20:59In 1964, Dora Fronzac handed over her newborn son,
21:03Paul Fronzac, to a nurse at the Michael Rees Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.
21:07Unfortunately, this nurse was an imposter who disappeared with the baby.
21:12It was very traumatic for them.
21:13It's, I mean, I can't even imagine what they went through.
21:16A massive investigation was launched,
21:18and about one year later, authorities discovered an abandoned toddler,
21:22whom the Fronzacs believed was their missing son.
21:24In 2012, a suspicious Fronzac decided to take a DNA test
21:29and found that he wasn't related to the people he called his parents.
21:33In fact, his true identity was Jack Rosenthal,
21:36a twin who had disappeared in 1965.
21:39It was later discovered that the real Paul Fronzac was a man named Kevin Ray Beatty,
21:43although his identity wasn't publicly revealed until after his demise in 2020.
21:48But does, is there a family resemblance?
21:51Definitely. Definitely a resemblance.
21:54Number 29. Tanya Ryder
21:56In 2007, Tom Ryder was distraught at his home in Maple Valley, Washington.
22:01His wife Tanya had disappeared for about a week
22:04after completing her shift at a nearby supermarket.
22:06Well, as far as I knew, Tanya was just going about her normal day.
22:10I mean, she would have been getting off work at 9 o'clock,
22:12having breakfast, and then heading home.
22:15Little does Tom know, Tanya never makes it home that day.
22:21When Tom called the police, they offered little help
22:24as Tanya was captured on CCTV leaving the store.
22:27Eventually, they tracked her cell phone,
22:29which led them down her usual route home.
22:32The detectives were able to look at the records
22:33and determine which tower was accessed.
22:36They were able to narrow that down
22:38into essentially a pie-shaped area
22:41three to five miles out in a particular direction.
22:44There, they discover Tanya's crashed car,
22:47overturned in a ravine and hidden by vegetation.
22:50She had somehow survived eight days without food or water,
22:53enduring severe injuries including a broken collarbone,
22:57as well as fractured ribs and vertebra.
22:59Her left leg was also crushed and was very nearly amputated.
23:03Remarkably, Tanya has no recollection of what caused the crash.
23:08Number 28. Lucy Ann Johnson
23:10In 1961, Lucy Ann Johnson disappeared from her home
23:14in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.
23:16Bizarrely, it wasn't until 1965 that her husband Marvin reported her missing.
23:21This made him a prime suspect in her disappearance,
23:25but no evidence of wrongdoing was found.
23:27In 2013, Johnson's daughter Linda initiated her own investigation,
23:32which led her to a small territory called the Yukon
23:34where her mother previously lived.
23:36With aid from the local media,
23:38Linda met a woman named Rhonda,
23:40who claimed that Johnson was also her mother.
23:43Turns out Johnson had left Marvin due to domestic violence,
23:46but he prevented her from taking her two children along.
23:49She then relocated back to the Yukon,
23:51where she remarried and had four other kids.
23:54Number 27. Jamie Kloss
23:56In 2018, Jake Patterson invaded the Kloss home
24:00in Barron, Wisconsin, armed with a shotgun.
24:03He fatally shot James and Denise Kloss
24:05before abducting their daughter Jamie
24:07and taking her to his cabin in Gordon, Wisconsin.
24:10Patterson had become fixated on Kloss
24:12after seeing her get off a school bus.
24:1488 days later, Patterson put Kloss under his bed
24:17before leaving home,
24:18assuming that she was too scared to escape.
24:20She seized the opportunity and fled,
24:23subsequently encountering a woman
24:25who recognized her from the news.
24:27Obviously, Jamie is under this tremendous fear
24:30and he's using that fear in the beginning
24:32to keep her captive.
24:33I think for her,
24:35she just kept it together every day.
24:39She didn't know when she was going to get out
24:41or if she ever was going to.
24:43It must have taken everything inside her
24:45to just take that moment and run.
24:50It didn't take long for the cops to locate Patterson
24:52and extract a confession from him.
24:54He was sentenced to two life sentences
24:56without parole for the murders,
24:58plus 40 years for the kidnapping.
25:01Number 26.
25:02Brian Anthony McCain II, aka Busy Bone
25:05Today, Brian Anthony McCain II,
25:08also known as Busy Bone,
25:09is a Grammy-winning musician
25:11best known as a member of the rap group
25:13Bone Thugs in Harmony.
25:14However, his life took a dramatic turn in 1981
25:17when he and his sisters were taken
25:19by their mother's boyfriend.
25:20Deceived into believing
25:22that their mother and grandmother had died,
25:23the siblings were transported
25:25all over northern Oklahoma.
25:27Eventually, they settled on a reservation
25:29in Caw, Oklahoma.
25:31In 1983, the TV film Adam was broadcast,
25:34which featured photos of missing children
25:36before the end credits.
25:38One of these was McCain.
25:39His babysitter recognized the picture
25:41and promptly contacted the authorities.
25:43This led to McCain and his sisters
25:45being reunited with their mother.
25:47I went through a lot of things as a kid,
25:49and I think that, you know,
25:51it helped me become who I am.
25:52Number 25.
25:54Natasha Kampusch
25:55On March 2, 1998,
25:57Natasha Kampusch left her home
25:59in Vienna, Austria for school
26:00and disappeared without a trace.
26:03Police launched a massive investigation
26:05searching many vehicles,
26:06but they couldn't find her.
26:08Kampusch had been abducted
26:09by communications technician
26:10Wolfgang Priklpil,
26:12who confined her to a cellar in his home.
26:14I didn't know what was going to happen.
26:17In that moment,
26:18I thought it was the end.
26:21She remained under captivity for eight years,
26:23during which she was assaulted by Priklpil,
26:26both physically and sexually.
26:28In 2006,
26:29while cleaning Priklpil's van,
26:31she ran outside and alerted neighbors,
26:33who called the police.
26:34It was an enormous feeling of joy
26:35that cannot be compared to anything else.
26:38You see all the possibilities
26:40laid out in front of you.
26:41That night,
26:42Priklpil decided to end his own life
26:44rather than face justice.
26:46Kampusch later released books on her experience
26:48and was briefly a talk show host.
26:50Her story was immortalized
26:52in the 2013 film
26:543,096 Days.
26:56Number 24.
26:57Natasha Ryan
26:58In 1998,
27:00Natasha Ryan was reported missing
27:02from her hometown
27:02of Rockhampton, Queensland
27:04in Australia.
27:05The subsequent investigation
27:06eventually led the police
27:07to serial killer Leonard Fraser,
27:09who seemingly confessed to her murder.
27:11However,
27:12during Fraser's trial in 2003,
27:14police received an anonymous tip
27:16claiming that Ryan was in fact alive
27:18and hiding in the house
27:19of her boyfriend, Scott Black.
27:20It's emerged
27:21Natasha Ryan's bizarre vanishing act
27:23in 1998
27:24stemmed from the hatred
27:26of her mother, Jennifer.
27:27By the time she wanted to return home,
27:29it was too late.
27:31The lie she was living
27:32had become too big.
27:33The police raided Black's house
27:35in North Rockhampton
27:36and found her there.
27:37She had willingly left home
27:39to live with him secretly,
27:40hiding in a cupboard
27:41when guests came over.
27:43Scott was sentenced
27:43to three years in jail for perjury,
27:45two of which were suspended.
27:46While Ryan was fined $1,000
27:49for the false investigation.
27:51How could you do this to them?
27:55I honestly don't know.
27:56In 2008,
27:58the two got married.
27:59Number 23.
28:01Sean Hornbeck and Ben Ownby
28:02In 2002,
28:04Sean Hornbeck disappeared
28:05while riding his bicycle
28:06to a friend's house
28:07in Richwoods, Missouri.
28:09The police initially faced challenges
28:11in their investigation
28:12and the case ultimately went cold.
28:14In 2007,
28:15officers were at an apartment complex
28:17in Kirkwood, Missouri
28:18when they spotted
28:19a suspicious truck.
28:21A few days earlier,
28:22a similar vehicle
28:23had been involved
28:23in the kidnapping
28:24of teenager Ben Ownby.
28:26The cops traced the truck
28:27to Michael Devlin
28:28and they raided his apartment.
28:30Inside,
28:30they not only found Ownby
28:32but also Hornbeck
28:33who had been presented
28:35as Devlin's son
28:36for several years.
28:37Devlin later pleaded guilty
28:38to a host of charges
28:40and was sentenced
28:40to a staggering total
28:42of 4,240 years in prison.
28:45Sean's story
28:46remains a symbol of hope.
28:48Number 22.
28:49Carlina White
28:50In 1987,
28:52Carlina White,
28:53then an infant,
28:54was taken by her parents
28:55to New York City's
28:57Harlem Hospital Center.
28:58There,
28:59a woman named Ann Pettway
29:00posed as a nurse
29:01and abducted her.
29:02White was subsequently
29:03brought up as Nedra Nance
29:05in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
29:06In 2005,
29:07after discovering
29:08her birth certificate
29:09was fake,
29:10White confronted Pettway
29:11about her true identity
29:12and was told
29:13she had been abandoned
29:14as a baby.
29:15This explanation
29:16didn't satisfy her.
29:17White initiated
29:18her own investigation
29:19and found a baby picture
29:21of herself
29:21on a missing children's website.
29:23Carlina called
29:24the center's hotline
29:25and said,
29:25I don't know who I am.
29:27She contacted
29:27the authorities
29:28and DNA analysis
29:29confirmed her real identity.
29:31In 2012,
29:33Pettway entered a plea deal
29:34and received a 12-year
29:35prison sentence.
29:36She was ultimately
29:37released in 2021.
29:40She need help
29:40for her to take
29:41someone's child
29:42and make that person
29:44suffer like that.
29:45Number 21,
29:46Elizabeth Fritzl.
29:48In 2008,
29:49Josef Fritzl
29:50took his seriously ill
29:51daughter Kirsten
29:52to a hospital
29:52in Amstetten, Austria.
29:54However,
29:54his odd behavior
29:56and strange explanation
29:57on her mother's whereabouts
29:58raised concerns
29:59among the staff,
30:00prompting them
30:01to alert the police.
30:02Only when they threaten
30:04to take away
30:05her children
30:06that Elizabeth
30:07reveals for the first time
30:10what Josef Fritzl
30:11has been doing to her
30:13and the police arrest
30:15Josef Fritzl
30:16and the game
30:17is in effect
30:18up.
30:19Fritzl eventually
30:20brought Kirsten's mother
30:21Elizabeth to the hospital
30:22only to be arrested
30:24by the police.
30:25Elizabeth was actually
30:26Fritzl's daughter
30:27whom he claimed
30:28had run away
30:28to join a cult
30:29back in 1984.
30:31In reality,
30:32for 24 years,
30:33he secretly confined her
30:34to the basement
30:35of the family house
30:36and forced her
30:37to bear seven children
30:38for him.
30:39After Elizabeth's
30:40video testimony
30:41was played
30:41at his trial,
30:43in 2009,
30:44he was sentenced
30:44to life imprisonment.
30:46Either way,
30:48it's now this monster
30:49who's facing
30:50the rest of his days
30:51locked away.
30:53Number 20.
30:54Robert McDonough
30:55If you saw this
31:02in a movie,
31:03you'd think,
31:03nah,
31:04there's no way.
31:05In May of 2013,
31:06an elderly man
31:07named Robert McDonough
31:08went missing
31:09from his
31:09Limington, Maine home.
31:11The danger
31:11was compounded
31:12by the fact
31:12that McDonough
31:13has dementia.
31:15The authorities
31:15were called
31:16and searched
31:16the nearby woods
31:17throughout the night
31:18but found nothing.
31:19The next morning,
31:20a local news crew
31:21stationed themselves
31:22outside McDonough's house
31:23to report on his disappearance.
31:25And that is when
31:26McDonough quite literally
31:27strolled into the shot
31:28and asked the news crew
31:29what was happening.
31:30McDonough was safe
31:31and healthy
31:32and it was reported
31:33that he had wandered
31:34out of his house
31:34and likely into
31:35the neighboring forest.
31:36Do you identify
31:37him as Bob McDonough?
31:38I think so.
31:39Bob McDonough.
31:40Yeah.
31:40He looks a lot like a guy.
31:41Watch yourself.
31:41Watch yourself.
31:42Yeah.
31:42The rescue team
31:43may have just missed him
31:44during their search.
31:45Number 19.
31:47Timothy Carney
31:47A young New Jersey man
31:49named Timothy Carney
31:50went missing
31:51in September of 2004
31:52after calling
31:53his employer
31:53and telling him
31:54that he would be
31:55late for work.
31:56That night,
31:57Carney's empty vehicle
31:58was discovered
31:58near Newark.
32:00His parents searched
32:00years for their son
32:02and he was finally
32:03found safe
32:04on September 23rd, 2011,
32:07nearly seven full years
32:08from the day
32:09he disappeared.
32:10Unfortunately,
32:11not much information
32:12was given
32:12regarding his situation.
32:14Carney's parents
32:14believe that he was
32:15influenced by
32:16a religious organization
32:17known as
32:18the Gospel Outreach
32:19to abandon
32:20all contact
32:21with his family.
32:27Number 18.
32:29Carlos de Salazar
32:30A Spanish doctor
32:32by the name of
32:32Carlos Sánchez
32:33Ortiz de Salazar
32:34disappeared
32:35from the city
32:36of Seville
32:36in 1996.
32:38The story goes
32:38that de Salazar
32:39was severely depressed
32:40and fled his home country
32:42to begin
32:42a new life elsewhere.
32:44There was no
32:44further news
32:45and de Salazar
32:46was even declared
32:47legally dead
32:48in 2010.
32:49Five years after that,
32:50mushroom pickers
32:51found de Salazar
32:52living in the woods
32:53of Tuscany, Italy.
32:54Damn, damn!
32:56I'm sorry!
32:56Oh, damn, damn
32:58and blasted!
32:59I'm sorry!
33:00Shh!
33:00And you shmee!
33:0118 years of total silence
33:03and you shmee!
33:05De Salazar told them
33:06who he was
33:07and proved it
33:08by showing them
33:08some documents.
33:09Photos of these documents
33:10were later shared
33:11with a missing persons organization.
33:13Unfortunately,
33:14this story
33:15has a frustratingly
33:16ambiguous ending.
33:18After being found,
33:19de Salazar
33:19had taken down
33:20his makeshift home
33:21and once again
33:22fled into the wilderness
33:24to be on his own.
33:25Number 17.
33:26Petra Pashitka
33:27Back in 1984,
33:29Petra Pashitka
33:30was due to arrive
33:31at her brother's birthday party
33:32but she never made it.
33:34A suspected criminal
33:35then confessed
33:36to killing Pashitka.
33:37The case was closed
33:38in 1989
33:39with many believing
33:40that Pashitka
33:41had been killed.
33:42There was no further news
33:43until 2015.
33:45when police were called
33:46to a home burglary
33:47in Dusseldorf.
33:48The victim said
33:49her name was
33:49Mrs. Schneider
33:50but eventually came clean.
33:52She was actually
33:53the presumed dead
33:54Petra Pashitka.
33:56She had been living
33:57under a false identity
33:58for over 30 years.
34:00When found,
34:01Pashitka refused
34:02to give a reason
34:03for her disappearance
34:03and explicitly asked
34:05not to be reunited
34:06with her family.
34:07However,
34:08she also claimed
34:09that family troubles
34:10were not the reason
34:11for her sudden departure.
34:13Number 16.
34:13Harold Wayne Lovell
34:15This is another person
34:17who was presumably killed.
34:18But this wasn't
34:19at the hands
34:20of some random criminal.
34:21It was at the hands
34:22of John Wayne Gacy.
34:24I've always told people
34:25when I got into clown makeup,
34:26I regressed in a childhood.
34:28Many believed
34:29that Harold Wayne Lovell
34:30was killed by Gacy
34:31back in the late 70s,
34:32but his body
34:33was never identified.
34:34In the early 2010s,
34:36police were attempting
34:37to identify
34:38some unknown Gacy victims
34:39when they started
34:40looking into Lovell.
34:41We have a shot
34:42of all of the victims
34:43together here.
34:45And when you look
34:46over at the photos,
34:48I have no recollection
34:49of any of them.
34:49Never met them.
34:50Their search took them
34:51across the country
34:52to South Florida,
34:53which is where they made
34:54a shocking discovery.
34:56Lovell was alive and well,
34:57and he didn't even know
34:59that he was presumed dead,
35:00let alone a victim of Gacy's,
35:02whom he had actually met
35:03and worked for
35:04before his disappearance.
35:05According to Lovell,
35:07he had fled Chicago
35:08following some family troubles
35:09and stayed out of contact
35:10for the following
35:1130-odd years.
35:13Number 15.
35:14Julian Hernandez
35:15In this case,
35:17a simple college application
35:18uncovered a 13-year-long ruse.
35:21In August of 2002,
35:23young Julian Hernandez
35:24was taken by his father Bobby.
35:26Bobby had left behind
35:27a note for Julian's mother,
35:28saying only that
35:29he had taken their son.
35:30No other details were given,
35:32and father and son
35:33seemingly disappeared
35:34into thin air.
35:35They had actually gone
35:37to Cleveland
35:37and developed new identities,
35:39with Bobby obtaining
35:40a social security guard
35:41under the name
35:42Jonathan Mangina.
35:43This is the house
35:44where young Julian Hernandez
35:45was living with his dad,
35:47a stepmom,
35:48and a little stepsister.
35:49He was an honor student,
35:50headed to college in the fall,
35:52and then his world
35:53came crashing down
35:54with the discovery
35:55that he was missing,
35:56and he didn't even know it.
35:57The ruse finally ended
35:58when Julian applied
35:59for college in 2015.
36:01A school counselor
36:02discovered that Julian
36:03was legally missing,
36:04and notified authorities.
36:0619-year-old Julian,
36:07who has forgiven his father,
36:09was then reunited
36:10with his mother,
36:11and Bobby was sentenced
36:12to four years in prison.
36:14He wants to talk about
36:15all the bad things he's done,
36:16and I think that he's done
36:18a lot of good.
36:19Number 14.
36:21Denise Bolser
36:22It's amazing
36:23how much trouble
36:24money can cause.
36:25Back in 1985,
36:2724-year-old Denise Bolser
36:29went missing
36:29while working as a bookkeeper.
36:31The only clue
36:32was a note
36:33left to her husband
36:34which read,
36:34quote,
36:35We have your wife.
36:36While the police
36:37received many tips
36:38over the years,
36:39Bolser was eventually
36:40tracked by a private investigator
36:42and found in 2002.
36:44There didn't seem
36:44to be any answers
36:45to this riddle.
36:46With the most shocking twist
36:47coming at the very end.
36:49She was living in Florida
36:50under the name
36:51Denise James.
36:52According to Bolser,
36:54she had fled
36:54to hide from her old boss.
36:56Bolser had skimmed
36:57more than $10,000
36:59from the company
37:00of her boss's wife,
37:01allegedly on the orders
37:02of her employer.
37:04When Bolser began
37:04discussing the ruse,
37:06her co-conspirator
37:07reportedly threatened
37:07to kill her.
37:08She fled
37:09to live a new life
37:10and has since been
37:11reunited with her parents.
37:13She wrote the ransom note,
37:15drove to the airport,
37:17paid cash
37:17for a plane ticket,
37:19and disappeared.
37:20Number 13.
37:21Steve Carter
37:22Imagine this.
37:24You're browsing online
37:25when you come across
37:26your own picture
37:27on a website
37:28of missing children.
37:29That's exactly
37:30what happened
37:30to Steve Carter.
37:31So I had a couple
37:32free minutes of lunch
37:33and went on
37:33missingkids.com,
37:35pulled up Hawaii,
37:3634 years male,
37:37and lo and behold,
37:38that was the picture
37:39that came up.
37:39After reading
37:40about a kidnapping,
37:41Carter found himself
37:42on the National Center
37:43for Missing
37:43and Exploited Children's page,
37:45after which he saw
37:46an age progression
37:47photo of a missing child.
37:48He thought that
37:49the grown man's face
37:50bore a startling
37:51resemblance to his own,
37:52so he contacted
37:53the police
37:54and they got to work.
37:55To see yourself
37:56and to realize
37:58that, you know what,
37:58people have been
37:59looking for you
38:00for that long,
38:01I was shell-shocked.
38:02Turns out that
38:03Steve Carter
38:03was actually
38:04Marks Barnes,
38:05and he had gone missing
38:07over 30 years earlier
38:08after going for a walk
38:09with his mother.
38:10It's believed
38:11that Carter's mother
38:12took him to an orphanage
38:13and put him up for adoption
38:14under a false name.
38:15She then disappeared herself,
38:17leaving behind
38:18many frustrating questions.
38:20Number 12.
38:21Jan Broberg
38:22Today,
38:23Jan Broberg felt
38:24is a professional actress,
38:26having found success
38:27on stage
38:27and fame
38:28on the WB's Everwood,
38:30in which she portrayed
38:31Nurse Louise.
38:32Unfortunately,
38:33Broberg suffered
38:34a harrowing childhood
38:35that involved
38:36multiple kidnappings.
38:38Back in 1972,
38:39Broberg's parents
38:40met the Birchtold family
38:41through church.
38:42Broberg quickly developed
38:44a father-daughter relationship
38:45with Robert Birchtold.
38:46Birchtold and Broberg
38:48became friends,
38:50and they trusted each other,
38:52and that's just the way
38:53Bob Birchtold wanted it.
38:55Unfortunately,
38:56Birchtold kidnapped Broberg
38:57and took her
38:58to his trailer home
38:59in Mexico.
39:00I don't think
39:00he's kidnapped her,
39:01he's just gone
39:02someplace with her.
39:04And he had to
39:04drill that into our minds.
39:06He kidnapped her.
39:07She was eventually rescued,
39:09but then kidnapped again
39:11two years later,
39:12and the now teen
39:13proceeded to live
39:14with Birchtold
39:14in California
39:15for four months.
39:16She was eventually
39:17rescued by the FBI,
39:19and her story
39:19was later turned
39:20into the Netflix documentary
39:21Abducted in Plain Sight.
39:24Number 11,
39:25Brenda Heist.
39:26On the morning
39:27of February 8, 2002,
39:29Brenda Heist
39:30dropped her children
39:31off at school
39:31and disappeared
39:32without a trace.
39:33At the age of 54,
39:35her daughter was 8,
39:37her son was 12,
39:38and Heist
39:39chose to walk away.
39:41The family
39:42was understandably
39:43devastated,
39:43and Heist's husband
39:45petitioned to have her
39:46declared legally dead.
39:47The case was solved
39:48in 2013
39:49to mixed results.
39:51Heist intentionally
39:52left her family
39:53in Pennsylvania behind
39:54to live as a homeless
39:55person in Florida.
39:57She had hitchhiked there
39:58with a group of people
39:59without homes
39:59and spent the next decade
40:01working odd jobs
40:02in the state.
40:03According to Heist,
40:04she had abandoned her family
40:05for stress-related reasons.
40:07But this story
40:08does not have
40:09a happy ending.
40:10Heist's husband
40:10claimed that he had
40:11no desire to see her,
40:13and her now-grown daughter
40:14doesn't think her mother
40:15quote,
40:16deserves to see her.
40:17I don't know
40:18that I've ever
40:18stopped crying
40:19and started living,
40:20to be honest with you.
40:24South Carolina woman
40:25Michelle Whitaker
40:25went missing
40:26in August of 2002
40:27after a friend
40:28gave her a lift
40:29to a truck stop.
40:30Is she walking
40:31around somewhere?
40:31Is she okay?
40:32Or is she laying
40:33in a ditch somewhere?
40:35I don't want
40:36to go to my grave
40:37not knowing
40:38what's happened
40:38to my daughter.
40:39Her case later
40:40turned into
40:40a homicide investigation,
40:42and police suspected
40:43a man named
40:44Jonathan Vick.
40:45Vick was the boyfriend
40:46of Whitaker's co-worker,
40:47and she had also
40:48gone missing.
40:49However,
40:50police were unable
40:51to prove that Vick
40:52killed Whitaker.
40:53The case went cold
40:54until 2008.
40:56An Oregon woman
40:57was watching
40:57a Forensic Files episode
40:58about Vick
40:59when a picture
41:00of Whitaker
41:00flashed on screen.
41:02The woman recognized
41:03Whitaker as her neighbor
41:04and contacted
41:05the authorities.
41:06Her neighbor was indeed
41:07the missing
41:07Michelle Whitaker,
41:08and she later told
41:09her family that she
41:10had fled South Carolina
41:11to start a new life
41:13in Oregon.
41:13Still asleep,
41:14and the phone rang,
41:15and I answered it,
41:16and it was Ellen Wood
41:17from the police department.
41:19He said,
41:21we found Shelly,
41:22and she's alive.
41:23Number 9.
41:24Gabriel Nagy
41:25When one hears
41:27fugue state,
41:28they probably think
41:29of that Breaking Bad
41:30episode where Walt
41:31walks around a supermarket
41:32in his birthday suit.
41:37Well,
41:38that was reality
41:39for Gabriel Nagy.
41:40Back in January
41:41of 1987,
41:43the husband and father
41:43disappeared under
41:44mysterious circumstances.
41:46He was reported
41:47missing after he failed
41:48to return home
41:49for lunch,
41:49and his burnt-out vehicle
41:51was later discovered.
41:52Nagy remained missing
41:53until 2012,
41:54when a police officer
41:55tracked him down
41:56and found him
41:57alive and well.
41:58Nagy had seemingly
41:59suffered a dissociative
42:01fugue state,
42:02a rare psychiatric disorder
42:04characterized by a loss
42:05of memory of one's
42:06identity and personality.
42:08Put simply,
42:09Nagy forgot who he was,
42:10and wandered away
42:11to start a new life.
42:13I was walking
42:15down some road
42:19or highway
42:20with a lot of
42:23headlights,
42:24and I remember
42:26feeling fear.
42:28Number 8.
42:29Lula Hood
42:29There's just something
42:31about Florida
42:31that apparently
42:32attracts people.
42:33A woman named
42:34Lula Hood went missing
42:35all the way back
42:36in 1970.
42:37According to
42:38Hood's relatives,
42:39she simply disappeared
42:40from Illinois
42:41without a trace.
42:42No word was heard
42:43until 1996,
42:45when Hood's family
42:46was told that her
42:46remains were found
42:47in a Florida brickyard.
42:49That it was her,
42:51but at that time
42:51they couldn't do DNA
42:52because it wasn't
42:53that advanced yet.
42:54We had a memorial service.
42:56That remained
42:56the official story
42:57until 2009,
42:59when the remains
42:59were tested for DNA.
43:01Surprise,
43:02they didn't belong
43:03to Hood.
43:04The case was reopened,
43:05and investigators
43:06eventually tracked Hood
43:07to another place
43:08in Florida
43:09where she'd been living
43:10for the last 40 years.
43:11According to Hood's daughter,
43:13Hood got into a squabble
43:14with a family member
43:15and was told to leave.
43:16She did,
43:17going all the way
43:18to Florida
43:18and living her life
43:20in complete anonymity.
43:22Number 7.
43:23Amanda Eller
43:23Yoga teacher
43:25and physical therapist
43:26Amanda Eller
43:27decided to go for a hike
43:28through the Hawaiian wilderness.
43:30She never returned home,
43:31and her boyfriend
43:32quickly reported her missing.
43:34Her vehicle was found
43:35abandoned
43:35near Maui's
43:36Kahakapau Trail,
43:37but there were
43:39no signs of Eller.
43:40She had accidentally
43:41wandered off the trail
43:42and found herself
43:43in the middle
43:44of the remote wilderness.
43:45When it was obvious
43:46that help wasn't coming,
43:47she was forced
43:48to live off wild plants,
43:50berries,
43:50and rainwater.
43:51After over two long
43:53and grueling weeks,
43:54Eller was finally located
43:56by a search party
43:57and rescued via helicopter.
43:58The last 17 days of my life
44:00have been the toughest
44:01days of my life,
44:02and it's been
44:05a really significant
44:08spiritual journey.
44:10She was in surprisingly
44:11good condition
44:12and was treated
44:13at a local hospital
44:14for a fractured leg.
44:15I'm just the girl
44:16that got lost in the woods,
44:18and you guys, like,
44:19showed up hard.
44:20Like, this is, like,
44:21true aloha.
44:22Number 6.
44:23Bo Bergdahl
44:24In May of 2009,
44:26soldier Bo Bergdahl
44:28was working
44:28counterinsurgency
44:29in Afghanistan
44:30when his friend
44:31and fellow officer
44:32Brian Bradshaw
44:32was fatally hit
44:33by a roadside bomb.
44:35This likely tarnished
44:36Bergdahl's outlook
44:37on the war effort.
44:38He wrote to his family
44:39a few days later,
44:40and his email
44:41was full of critical language
44:43against the U.S. Army.
44:44Bergdahl subsequently
44:45disappeared under
44:46mysterious circumstances
44:47on June 30th.
44:48Of all the questions
44:49swirling around
44:50this young man,
44:51perhaps the most intriguing
44:52is why did he leave
44:53his base
44:54in the first place?
44:55No one knew
44:56where he was,
44:57and it would be
44:58almost a month
44:58before an insurgent group
44:59revealed that they
45:00were holding
45:01Bergdahl prisoner.
45:02He served as a POW
45:03until May 31st, 2014,
45:06when he was freed
45:06in exchange
45:07for Taliban prisoners.
45:09We learned today
45:09that doctors
45:10are so worried
45:10about his mental health
45:11after five years
45:12in Taliban custody
45:13that they've told
45:15his family
45:15not to reach out
45:17even just to say
45:18welcome back.
45:19Later investigations
45:19showed that Bergdahl
45:21was likely snatched
45:21after abandoning
45:23his post.
45:23He was subsequently
45:25court-martialed
45:25and demoted.
45:26Talk about a
45:27not-so-welcome home.
45:29Number 5.
45:30Nguyen Thi Phan
45:31Vietnamese high school
45:32student Nguyen Thi Phan
45:33vanished in 1992.
45:35Phan returned home
45:36but found herself
45:37locked out
45:37because of the late time,
45:39so she relocated
45:40to a nearby karaoke bar.
45:42The next morning,
45:43a disoriented Phan
45:44woke up in China.
45:45She had been taken
45:46to the country
45:47by a woman named Tien,
45:48who tortured her
45:49and her friends
45:50and forced them
45:51to marry older
45:52local Chinese men.
45:53She eventually fled
45:54with the help
45:55of a local driver
45:56and returned to Hanoi.
45:57In a moment
45:58that would be
45:58too unbelievable
45:59for fiction,
46:01Phan approached
46:01a man on the street
46:02and asked for directions.
46:04That man happened
46:05to be her uncle.
46:06He took her
46:06to the family home
46:07and Phan was reunited
46:09with her family
46:10after 21 years.
46:11Number 4.
46:13Michelle Knight,
46:14Amanda Berry,
46:15and Gina DeJesus
46:15This is easily
46:17one of the most famous
46:18kidnapping stories
46:19of our time,
46:20having attained fame
46:21through its dramatic conclusion.
46:23Between 2002 and 2004,
46:25a man named Ariel Castro
46:27kidnapped the three women
46:28off the streets of Cleveland
46:30by offering them lifts.
46:31They remained in his house
46:32for roughly a decade
46:33and were subjected
46:35to various forms
46:36of horrible torture.
46:37It wasn't until May 6, 2013
46:39that Berry saw
46:41her chance of escape.
46:42Castro had accidentally
46:43left a door unlocked
46:45and Berry was able
46:46to contact
46:47passing neighbors.
46:48So we kicked the bottom
46:49and she comes out
46:51with the little girl
46:51and she says,
46:53call 911.
46:54My name was Amanda Berry.
46:56They helped Berry
46:56and her daughter
46:57escape the house
46:58and she telephoned the police
47:00to report the kidnappings,
47:01after which the other
47:02two were rescued.
47:03Castro was arrested
47:04that same day
47:05and he would later
47:06take his own life
47:08in his detention cell.
47:09I spent 11 years
47:10in hell.
47:13Now your hell
47:14is just beginning.
47:15Number 3.
47:16Elizabeth Smart
47:17Violently ripped
47:18from her own home
47:20and her own bed
47:21in the middle of the night.
47:22Back in June of 2002,
47:24a man named
47:25Brian David Mitchell
47:26broke into the Smart household
47:27and abducted teenager
47:29Elizabeth Smart
47:30from her bedroom.
47:31Her sister,
47:32Mary Catherine,
47:33was also in the room
47:34at the time
47:34of the abduction
47:35but faked
47:36being still sleeping.
47:37Elizabeth remained
47:38with Mitchell
47:39and his wife
47:39for the next nine months.
47:41Mary Catherine
47:42suddenly realized
47:43that the man
47:44who took her sister
47:44was the same man
47:46who had worked
47:46on their house
47:47as a general laborer
47:48one day.
47:49A sketch of the man
47:50was drawn up
47:50and released
47:51to news outlets.
47:52One day,
47:52while walking
47:53in Sandy, Utah,
47:54several eyewitnesses
47:56recognized Mitchell's face
47:57and notified police
47:58of his location.
47:59He and his wife
48:00were successfully captured
48:01and Smart
48:02was finally rescued.
48:04The scariest night
48:05of my life
48:06happened 11 years ago.
48:08She's sharing her story
48:09to help other victims
48:11of abuse.
48:12Number two,
48:13J.C. Dugard.
48:14For 18 years,
48:16she was forbidden
48:16to say her own name
48:18so this is how her book,
48:19A Stolen Life,
48:21begins.
48:21J.C. Dugard
48:22was tased
48:23and snatched off the street
48:24while approaching
48:25her school bus
48:25on June 10, 1991.
48:27The perpetrators
48:28were husband and wife
48:29duo Philip
48:30and Nancy Garrido.
48:31Despite numerous people
48:33witnessing the kidnapping,
48:34the trail went cold
48:35and no one heard
48:37anything of Dugard
48:38for the next 18 years.
48:40In that time,
48:41Dugard was consistently
48:42assaulted by Philip Garrido
48:43and bore him
48:44two daughters.
48:46The case was finally
48:47broken by a special
48:48events manager
48:48named Lisa Campbell.
48:50Garrido was visiting
48:51UC Berkeley
48:51with his two daughters
48:52and their quote
48:53erratic behavior
48:55caught Campbell's attention.
48:56After getting his name
48:57through the booking
48:57of an appointment,
48:59she notified the police
49:00which eventually
49:01led to Garrido's arrest.
49:02Dugard was finally
49:03rescued and reunited
49:05with her mother
49:05on August 27, 2009,
49:08now almost 30 years old.
49:10Do you worry
49:11at some point
49:11they'll want to see him?
49:13I want them to make
49:13their own choices in life
49:15and if that's something
49:16that they need to do,
49:17then, you know.
49:17Really?
49:17You'd be okay with that?
49:18I wouldn't be okay with it,
49:20but I wouldn't not
49:21let them do it.
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49:38Number 1.
49:39Stephen Stainer
49:40On December 4, 1972,
49:50Stephen Stainer
49:51was abducted
49:52by Irvin Murphy
49:53and Kenneth Parnell.
49:54Stainer proceeded
49:54to live as Parnell's son
49:56while being continuously
49:57subjected to his
49:58depraved whims.
49:59Parnell attempted
50:00to use Stainer
50:01in other kidnappings,
50:02but Stainer
50:03was uncooperative.
50:04In fact,
50:05on the night of
50:06March 1, 1980,
50:07he and a young boy
50:08named Timmy White
50:09escaped Parnell's house
50:10and made their way
50:11to a local police station.
50:13Stainer was finally
50:14reunited with his family
50:15the following day.
50:16He wasn't the boy
50:17they remembered,
50:18but a teenager now.
50:20He found it difficult
50:21to adjust
50:21and mostly kept
50:22his experiences to himself.
50:24After Stainer died
50:25in a motorcycle accident
50:26at age 24,
50:28Timmy White
50:28served as a pallbearer.
50:30Are there any other cases
50:31of missing people
50:32who were eventually found
50:33that we missed
50:34in this video?
50:35Let us know below.
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