Amazing Missing Cases Where People Were Found
Most missing person cases end with the person never being found or dead but in these stories, the person is amazingly found alive!
Raudhatul Jannah
At only four years old Jannah was washed away by the 2004 boxing day tsunami and presumed dead after her family spend months looking for her. 10 years later her uncle was visiting another island when he saw her and thought she looked like his niece, he told his sister about this and she came to the island and realized that the girl was actually her daughter now 14 years old. She was found almost 80 miles south of her family and she survived by holding onto a piece f driftwood before being washed up on the island where a fisherman's mother looked after her for 10 years.
Robert Hutton
Hutton went missing in 1972 at 21 years old after telling his mother he was traveling from New York to California. In 2012 Hutton’s sister heard the sheriff's office was trying to identify seven of the serial killer John Wayne Gacy’s victims who were unidentified. Hutton was a young man at the time who hitchhiked and travel and would likely passed through Chicago and may have been a victim of Gacy. The sheriff's office traced a man named Robert Hutton to Colorado but then found out he moved to Stevensville, Montana, and in April confirmed he was the same Hutton that was assumed dead. It took more than 40 years but his family found him.
“He was surprised that they were still looking for him. You mean they’re still looking for me? And I said yes they are,” said Det. Jason Moran, Cook County Sheriff’s Dept.
Gabriel Nagy
Gabriel Nagy was a man who after a car crash while driving home, lost his memory. More than 20 years later, he was found, and only two weeks before he would have been declared dead.
“I’d been living under a pseudonym for a long time but I’d been having flashes of my proper name; things were slowly returning,”
He had a job, a home, and a family but he had no memory of any of it. One memory he does have is where he remembers bleeding from a head wound. The 20 years he was missing had Nagy being offered odd jobs no fishing boats and building sites and working on a farm. At times he slept on the streets or camped on the beach drinking.
Nagy met a Pastor who offered him a room in his church and the job of caretaker,
“I jumped at the chance and it kept me off the streets,”
The Pastor helped him get a Medicare card in his original name when Nagy needed cataract surgery, the record of this was found by Senator Constable Robinson who called Nagy. He told him it was up to him wehter he wanted to contact his family or not.
“That afternoon I sat down and wrote the longest letter I’d ever written in my life seven and a half pages on both sides of the paper,”
He posted a letter to his wife and daughter and three days later got a message on his mobile saying:
‘Hi Dad’ and that was enough to make me cry,”
“She wrote that she’d finished the letter and she still loved me.
“Ten minutes later the phone rang and it was Pam. We talked until the battery died.”
Two weeks later his daughter flew to see him,
“He met me at the airport with a big bunch of flowers,”
“It was like it was all in slow motion and we ran through the airport into each others arms.”
Edgar Latulip
Edgar Latulip went missing in 1986, the last time he was seen was in the hospital. Latulip had cognitive issues and at 21 years old tried to kill himself. When he went missing, police assumed he had committed suicide and his mother thought he may have been murdered. Latulip had hit his head and lost his memory for a period of time, his memories started to come back to him one day, 30 years since he went missing, he started to remember things like his real name. He told a social worker his real name and the social worker googled him and found out his was a missing person case and later a DNA test confirmed he was the young man who went missing 30 years ago.
He had been living 80 miles away from his home, he didn’t use social media, and struggled for a while with being homeless before he had to ask for help from social services. Latulip finally met his mother again and apologized, he said to her that he has been living a good life, he had made friends and had his own apartment and a government disability pension. The last time he was seen he was a troubled 21-year-old and now he was a 50 year man who seemed mentally and physically better than he was.
