A missing wife who may have escaped an abusive husband is found alive and happy after 62 years.

[Marcuse]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wisconsin-woman-found-alive-missing-62-years-no-regrets-disappearing-rcna204908

[ProfessorGAC]

1. Interesting Story

Abuse "may have" been the motivation. I'll put 99% on that "may have".

[stopdiggin]

2. and I was just going to say, "bet there's more to it .."

and suspicion that we're both right in large part.

Usually - and this is clearly not one of those cases - 5-10 years down the road, somebody has gotten a nod along the lines of "still alive." Apparently, and rather tragically?, there was no such 'somebody' to be trusted - or imagined to care - in this case. But hats off to a survivor who did what needed to be done!

[2naSalit]

3. I am sure...

That the abuse was it. My mother left my dad, and all of us, because he was beating her brutally, in front of us, and saying he would kill her. I never blamed her for leaving, I was pissed that she didn't take us with her.