She was locked in a box and tortured and sexually abused by Cameron Hooker and his wife, Janice. He fled the scene, and Shaof wandered out of the hole, yelling for help. He hid her in a bunker he dug in the ground deep in the woods next to his trailer home. She works in insurance sales and lives in rural Pennsylvania. On June 15, 1948, in Camden, New Jersey, Frank La Salle posed as a policeman and “arrested” 11-year-old Horner. On January 8, 2007, Devlin abducted another, younger boy, Ben Ownby. All Rights Reserved. One of those friends, Lydia Esparra, tells PEOPLE: “Despite being skinny, she looked very healthy.

After the grueling ordeal, Shoaf returned to high school. What happens for the freed Ohio women now? Her mother, Barbara Knight, had arrived from her home in Florida and was still waiting on Wednesday night to see her daughter. For the next 10 days, 36-year-old unemployed construction worker Vinson Filyaw, raped her. If you would like to opt out of browser push notifications, please refer to the following instructions specific to your device and browser: this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. He caught her stealing a 5 cent notebook and told her he was an FBI agent and threatened to send her to reform school if she did not cooperate. Police arrested James Duncan, a convicted killer, who Shasta said murdered her mother, brother, and soon-to-be step-father. Coyote Ugly Turns 20: Where Is the Cast Now? On March 21, 1950, Horner managed to call her sister and told her to send the FBI.

Kidnapped in Long Island, NY in 1992 at nine years old by neighbor John Esposito, Katie Beers spent 17 days in a concrete cell. She was given a bucket to use as a bathroom and allowed to shower once a week when his parents were asleep. Officials investigated Garrido, and soon after, arrested him and his wife, Nancy Garrido. The Cleveland kidnapping is just the latest in a long line of horrific crimes and abductions in America that have made headlines. Upon his release, Hornbeck returned to school and went on to community college. In 1985, Stayner married and had two children. Did You Know These 12 Celebrities Suffered From Depression? She was let out of the house occasionally to run errands and eventually confided in the local deli owner her real name. Where Are They Now?! Knowing she would never be found deep in a pit, she earned the trust of her captor. They went to the police station, and the next day, Parnell was arrested for the kidnappings. As Stayner entered puberty, Parnell needed a new, younger boy. Hose lived with his parents, and locked Kach in the closet in his upstairs bedroom. The middle schooler began confiding in Thomas Hose, a 37-year-old school security guard. Today, Kach is still estranged from her parents. Tragically, on September 16, 1989, Steven, 24, died after his motorcycle crashed into traffic. Later that year, Filyaw was sentenced to 421 years in prison. They locked her in the basement with duct tape bindings covering her hands, legs, and eyes. But Gina had not forgotten another detail involving her father, Feliz DeJesus, who told Esparra what happened when he embraced his daughter for the first time just hours after her rescue on Monday. As one relative spoke to her in Spanish, Gina turned to her mom, Nancy Ruiz, and quietly explained that after her years in confinement, “I don’t understand Spanish anymore,” says Esparra. On September 6, 2006, 14-year old Shaof was abducted after leaving her school bus in Lugoff, S.C., by a man dressed in combat fatigues who claimed to be a police officer. She lives in California under a changed last name and is an advocate for abused women. Cleveland Abduction Survivors Now: Ariel Castro's Victims 6 Years Later Unwilling to allow White to endure the torture he did, Stayner escaped with White on March 1, 1980 while Parnell was working a night shift. Gina DeJesus, now 25, wrote in her memoir about the first time that Castro raped her following her abduction in 2004 in Cleveland, Ohio She recalled: 'I'm … She told police he then took her and Dylan in his stolen Jeep and moved them to different campsites, molesting them along the way. So, we’ve compiled a list of 11 victims who’ve lived to tell the tale of their criminal ordeals.

Read on to find out who’s who. On May 16, 2005 officials discovered the bodies of Brenda Groene, 40, her fiancé Mark McKenzie, and her son, Slade Groene, 13, in their Idaho home. She also began the Elizabeth Smart Foundation, which raises awareness about abductions. They’re doing the right thing, they’re giving Gina her space.”, “They’re not saying things can get back to normal,” Esparra says of Gina’s parents and family.

11 Abduction Victims Who Survived (LIST) Sophie Jacob. Yet outside the Berry and DeJesus homes, balloons and welcome-home signs fluttered – happy signs of the community’s growing embrace for the long-missing girls. Here's how they're doing now. La Salle was sentenced to 30-35 years in prison.