Missing Texas student found after seven years.

[Bunny]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050605/ap_on_re_us/student_found

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BRYAN, Texas - A Texas A&M University student who had been feared murdered after disappearing nearly seven years ago has been found alive and working in Kentucky, according to authorities.

Brandi Stahr went missing in October 1998, and police spent hours searching for her body in wooded areas. They questioned a serial rapist and murderer about her just hours before he was executed last year.

But a telephone tip led investigators to Florence, Ky., where Stahr has been working for the last five years at a Sam's Club, said Texas Ranger Frank Malinak.

"We thought we were dealing with a missing persons case," Malinak said. "But, in actuality, we were dealing with a person who did not want to be found and was in hiding."
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I wonder if they'll charge her for the cost of looking for her, ala the Runaway Bride?

[undeterred]

1. the police couldn't find someone working under her own name and SS#

in the age of the Patriot Act?

Really makes you wonder....

[pk_du]

2. Disappearing and contacting no-one isnt a crime...

...faking your abduction , reporting it to police with false statements about perpetrators and crimes committed against is.