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just long in the making welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 missing
people who were eventually found
Elizabeth’s rescue was a huge story many
who’d followed the case had long since
assumed she was dead before we begin we
published new content every day so be
sure to subscribe to our Channel and
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for this list we’re looking at people
who disappeared for a lengthy period of
time and then turned up again they may
have disappeared against their will or
of their own accord stainer said he
didn’t try to contact his real family
for seven years because Parnell had
brainwashed him making him think his
parents didn’t want him
number 10 Michelle Whitaker in 2002 this
then Waffle House employee left her
family home following an argument with
her mother and didn’t come back the
police started looking into her case
redoubling their efforts when Heather
sellers another worker at Waffle House
went missing a matter of weeks later
police seemingly feared that sellers his
boyfriend a suspect in an earlier murder
may have killed both women six years
later the boyfriends story shows up on a
true-crime TV show and woman sees the
picture of his suspected victim Whitaker
and recognizes her as a neighbor
Whitaker had simply had enough of her
old life and started a new somewhere
else but ultimately reunited with her
family number 9
Denise story so Bulls her doesn’t seem
to be any answer to the riddle with the
most shocking twist coming at the very
end when a woman disappears and her
husband finds a note saying we’ve got
your wife kidnapping is a logical
conclusion either that or the husband
murder her and is trying to cover it up
such were the circumstances when this
New Hampshire book keeper disappeared in
1985 the neither murdered nor kidnapping
were seriously entertained for very long
the next year Bolger was charged with
embezzling of the company where she
worked it turns out having been
threatened by her boss she left town
eventually settling in Florida where she
started over it wasn’t until 2002 that
she was found by which time the charges
had been dropped
she wrote the ransom note
drove to the airport paid cash for a
plane ticket and disappeared number
eight
Brenda heist at the age of 54 her
daughter was eight
her son was 12 when heist chose to walk
away in 2002 this Pennsylvania mother of
two was getting divorced and felt
overwhelmed three strangers offered a
sympathetic ear and she disappeared with
them leaving behind her kids and her
estranged husband who assumed the worst
eventually in 2010 the husband had her
declared legally dead and remarried but
three years later heists showed up
having essentially lived as a vagrant
for 11 years she turned herself in to
officials in Florida and told them she
was a missing person she was reunited
with her family but the scar she
inflicted when she left her family
appear to have been slow to heal I don’t
know that I’ve ever stopped crying and
started living to honest with you number
seven
Gabriel naggy despite its frequent use
in movies and TV severe amnesia is a
pretty rare occurrence
well surely but not rare enough for
Australian Gabriel naggy and his family
On January 21st 1987 the father of two
disappeared
withdrawing money from his bank two
weeks later and then there were no clues
as to his whereabouts for 23 years all
that’s known is that he suffered a
severe blow to the back of the head that
left him with total amnesia eventually
he recalled his real name and applied
for Medicare card and that brought him
to the attention of a constable who had
never given up looking for him number
six Lula Cora Hood Lula Cora hood was a
single mother of four in Illinois who
reportedly suffering from mental illness
had her sister adopt her kids but remain
active in their lives then in 1970 after
a heated family argument hood
disappeared when she didn’t come back
her family grew worried unfortunately
there were no clues as to what could
have happened to her until 1996 when a
skeleton was found in a neighborhood
Brickyard it was assumed that these
remains were Lula’s the then in 2011 84
year old Lula was located in
Jacksonville Florida the skeleton in the
Brickyard that remains a mystery number
five million T van in nineteen ninety
two million T van was a 16 year old
Vietnamese girl who like many her age
just wanted to have some fun when she
stayed out past her curfew one night
however she found herself locked out of
her house she went to a late-night
karaoke
where she encountered a woman who acted
friendly the next thing she remembers is
waking up in China she been kidnapped
and sold as a wife to a Chinese farmer
who beat and chained her during her time
in captivity she met a truck driver who
helped her escape back to her family
after 21 years number 4
Stephen Stanner 25 years ago the nation
was shocked and overjoyed to hear that
two missing children had been found
alive the sad story of Stephen stainer
is well known largely due to a 1989 TV
mini-series adaptation when he was seven
years old he was abducted by Kenneth
Parnell a pedophile who abused him over
the next seven years Parnell also
convinced stainer that he had been given
legal custody of the boy claiming his
family didn’t have enough money to keep
him when stainer was 14
Parnell kidnapped a new child named
Timothy afraid for Timothy stainer ran
away with him and was finally reunited
with his family although readjusting to
normal life was reportedly very
difficult in 1989 after starting a
family of his own stainer tragically
died in a motorcycle accident
number three Elizabeth Smart violently
ripped from her own home and her own bed
in the middle of the night Elizabeth
smarts terrifying story was also the
basis for a TV adaptation at the age of
14 the Salt Lake City youth was forcibly
abducted from her bedroom by a man named
Brian David Mitchell she was held
captive and abused over nine months by
Mitchell and his wife Wanda Eileen bars
II eventually Smart’s younger sister who
had witnessed the abduction was able to
identify Mitchell’s voice as one
belonging to someone who had done odd
jobs for the family after the case was
profiled on America’s Most Wanted
Mitchell was identified and smart was
saved her horrifying experience has made
the now adult smart a leading child
safety advocate and champion in the
fight against human trafficking the
scariest night of my life happened
eleven years ago she’s sharing her story
to help other victims of abuse number
two Jaycee Dugard for 18 years she was
forbidden to say her own name so this is
how her book a stolen life begins in
1991 eleven year-old Jaycee Dugard was
kidnapped while waiting for the school
bus 18 years later a parole officer
discovered JC when investigating her
abductor Phillip Garrido and his wife
JC had been forced to bear two children
for Gardo and had been kept for years in
a series of tents and
sheds in his backyard she had been
trained not to talk about her real life
but to pretend that she and her
daughters were all Nancy’s children
instead du gard now concentrates on
making up for lost time and raising her
daughters do you worry at some point
they’ll want to see him I want them to
make their own choices in life and if
that’s something that they need to do
then really you’d be okay with that I
wouldn’t be okay with it but I wouldn’t
not let them do it
number one Michelle Knight Amanda berry
and Gina DeJesus a low life by the name
of Ariel Castro kidnapped three young
women between 2002 and 2004 21 year-old
Michelle Knight 16 year old Amanda berry
and 14 year old Gina DeJesus they were
horribly beaten starved and raped with
Barry eventually bearing a child locked
away in Castro’s house in Cleveland they
dreamed of release one day in 2013 when
Castro was away Barry was able to make
contact with neighbors who kicked a hole
in the door so she could escape so we
could kick the bottom and she comes out
with the little girl and she says call
9-1-1 my name was a man of Barry she
phoned the police who then rescued
Knight into his seuss Castro was
sentenced to life plus 1,000 years but
took his own life just one month into
his sentence do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
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just long in the making welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 missing
people who were eventually found
Elizabeth’s rescue was a huge story many
who’d followed the case had long since
assumed she was dead before we begin we
published new content every day so be
sure to subscribe to our Channel and
ring the bell
to get notified about our latest videos
for this list we’re looking at people
who disappeared for a lengthy period of
time and then turned up again they may
have disappeared against their will or
of their own accord stainer said he
didn’t try to contact his real family
for seven years because Parnell had
brainwashed him making him think his
parents didn’t want him
number 10 Michelle Whitaker in 2002 this
then Waffle House employee left her
family home following an argument with
her mother and didn’t come back the
police started looking into her case
redoubling their efforts when Heather
sellers another worker at Waffle House
went missing a matter of weeks later
police seemingly feared that sellers his
boyfriend a suspect in an earlier murder
may have killed both women six years
later the boyfriends story shows up on a
true-crime TV show and woman sees the
picture of his suspected victim Whitaker
and recognizes her as a neighbor
Whitaker had simply had enough of her
old life and started a new somewhere
else but ultimately reunited with her
family number 9
Denise story so Bulls her doesn’t seem
to be any answer to the riddle with the
most shocking twist coming at the very
end when a woman disappears and her
husband finds a note saying we’ve got
your wife kidnapping is a logical
conclusion either that or the husband
murder her and is trying to cover it up
such were the circumstances when this
New Hampshire book keeper disappeared in
1985 the neither murdered nor kidnapping
were seriously entertained for very long
the next year Bolger was charged with
embezzling of the company where she
worked it turns out having been
threatened by her boss she left town
eventually settling in Florida where she
started over it wasn’t until 2002 that
she was found by which time the charges
had been dropped
she wrote the ransom note
drove to the airport paid cash for a
plane ticket and disappeared number
eight
Brenda heist at the age of 54 her
daughter was eight
her son was 12 when heist chose to walk
away in 2002 this Pennsylvania mother of
two was getting divorced and felt
overwhelmed three strangers offered a
sympathetic ear and she disappeared with
them leaving behind her kids and her
estranged husband who assumed the worst
eventually in 2010 the husband had her
declared legally dead and remarried but
three years later heists showed up
having essentially lived as a vagrant
for 11 years she turned herself in to
officials in Florida and told them she
was a missing person she was reunited
with her family but the scar she
inflicted when she left her family
appear to have been slow to heal I don’t
know that I’ve ever stopped crying and
started living to honest with you number
seven
Gabriel naggy despite its frequent use
in movies and TV severe amnesia is a
pretty rare occurrence
well surely but not rare enough for
Australian Gabriel naggy and his family
On January 21st 1987 the father of two
disappeared
withdrawing money from his bank two
weeks later and then there were no clues
as to his whereabouts for 23 years all
that’s known is that he suffered a
severe blow to the back of the head that
left him with total amnesia eventually
he recalled his real name and applied
for Medicare card and that brought him
to the attention of a constable who had
never given up looking for him number
six Lula Cora Hood Lula Cora hood was a
single mother of four in Illinois who
reportedly suffering from mental illness
had her sister adopt her kids but remain
active in their lives then in 1970 after
a heated family argument hood
disappeared when she didn’t come back
her family grew worried unfortunately
there were no clues as to what could
have happened to her until 1996 when a
skeleton was found in a neighborhood
Brickyard it was assumed that these
remains were Lula’s the then in 2011 84
year old Lula was located in
Jacksonville Florida the skeleton in the
Brickyard that remains a mystery number
five million T van in nineteen ninety
two million T van was a 16 year old
Vietnamese girl who like many her age
just wanted to have some fun when she
stayed out past her curfew one night
however she found herself locked out of
her house she went to a late-night
karaoke
where she encountered a woman who acted
friendly the next thing she remembers is
waking up in China she been kidnapped
and sold as a wife to a Chinese farmer
who beat and chained her during her time
in captivity she met a truck driver who
helped her escape back to her family
after 21 years number 4
Stephen Stanner 25 years ago the nation
was shocked and overjoyed to hear that
two missing children had been found
alive the sad story of Stephen stainer
is well known largely due to a 1989 TV
mini-series adaptation when he was seven
years old he was abducted by Kenneth
Parnell a pedophile who abused him over
the next seven years Parnell also
convinced stainer that he had been given
legal custody of the boy claiming his
family didn’t have enough money to keep
him when stainer was 14
Parnell kidnapped a new child named
Timothy afraid for Timothy stainer ran
away with him and was finally reunited
with his family although readjusting to
normal life was reportedly very
difficult in 1989 after starting a
family of his own stainer tragically
died in a motorcycle accident
number three Elizabeth Smart violently
ripped from her own home and her own bed
in the middle of the night Elizabeth
smarts terrifying story was also the
basis for a TV adaptation at the age of
14 the Salt Lake City youth was forcibly
abducted from her bedroom by a man named
Brian David Mitchell she was held
captive and abused over nine months by
Mitchell and his wife Wanda Eileen bars
II eventually Smart’s younger sister who
had witnessed the abduction was able to
identify Mitchell’s voice as one
belonging to someone who had done odd
jobs for the family after the case was
profiled on America’s Most Wanted
Mitchell was identified and smart was
saved her horrifying experience has made
the now adult smart a leading child
safety advocate and champion in the
fight against human trafficking the
scariest night of my life happened
eleven years ago she’s sharing her story
to help other victims of abuse number
two Jaycee Dugard for 18 years she was
forbidden to say her own name so this is
how her book a stolen life begins in
1991 eleven year-old Jaycee Dugard was
kidnapped while waiting for the school
bus 18 years later a parole officer
discovered JC when investigating her
abductor Phillip Garrido and his wife
JC had been forced to bear two children
for Gardo and had been kept for years in
a series of tents and
sheds in his backyard she had been
trained not to talk about her real life
but to pretend that she and her
daughters were all Nancy’s children
instead du gard now concentrates on
making up for lost time and raising her
daughters do you worry at some point
they’ll want to see him I want them to
make their own choices in life and if
that’s something that they need to do
then really you’d be okay with that I
wouldn’t be okay with it but I wouldn’t
not let them do it
number one Michelle Knight Amanda berry
and Gina DeJesus a low life by the name
of Ariel Castro kidnapped three young
women between 2002 and 2004 21 year-old
Michelle Knight 16 year old Amanda berry
and 14 year old Gina DeJesus they were
horribly beaten starved and raped with
Barry eventually bearing a child locked
away in Castro’s house in Cleveland they
dreamed of release one day in 2013 when
Castro was away Barry was able to make
contact with neighbors who kicked a hole
in the door so she could escape so we
could kick the bottom and she comes out
with the little girl and she says call
9-1-1 my name was a man of Barry she
phoned the police who then rescued
Knight into his seuss Castro was
sentenced to life plus 1,000 years but
took his own life just one month into
his sentence do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and subscribe for new videos every day
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