People Who Disappeared but Were Mysteriously Found Alive Years Later

Julian Hernandez

CBS News

Five-year-old Julian Hernandez was taken from his mother in Alabama by his father, Bobby. His mother immediately filed a missing person report. But authorities didn’t find him until he applied for college when he was 18. A discrepancy in his social security number brought him up in the missing person database. His father was arrested and tried for kidnapping.

Danielle Cramer

Reuters

In 2006, Danielle Cramer went missing. She was 15 at the time, but she didn’t go too far. Authorities found her in a neighbor’s house, locked up in a hidden room under a staircase with a dresser covering the door. Her abductor was 41-year-old Adam Gault, a family acquaintance. No one knows how she wound up in Gault’s home but authorities claimed she had a history of running away.

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