LOS ANGELES (AP) — An elderly
Los Angeles woman whose neighbors believed had died was instead found in
a rundown shack in Maine, where according to authorities an unrelated
family took her after gaining her confidence and selling her house.
The Los Angeles
Times reported (http://lat.ms/1wkHNvl ) Sunday on the story of Sarah
Cheiker, who disappeared in 2008 at age 89 and was found in 2012 — alive
but unwell in a dingy cabin in the town of Edgecomb where she
apparently had been abandoned.
"It
was a place I wouldn't have let my dog live in," said Det. Robert
McFetridge of the sheriff's department in rural, coastal Lincoln County,
Maine.
The only food was spoiled and the single light bulb had burned out.
As
investigators tried to piece together Cheiker's story, they came across
a missing person report filed with Los Angeles police by Cheiker's
neighbor, Jim Caccavo.
He figured Cheiker had died and was amazed to get a 2012 call from an FBI agent in Boston that she was alive.
Caccavo
recalled how, starting around 2006, a family of three people began to
help her out with shopping and rides to the doctor. The neighbor said he
doubted their motivations — they were unrelated to Cheiker, though they
claimed to have known her deceased mother — and warned her to be
careful.
And then, "all of a
sudden, Sarah disappeared," Caccavo told The Associated Press by
telephone Sunday. That was the fall of 2008.
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2 comments:
Beware of strangers!
So it's not enough to just abuse them, now real live kidnapping is involved.
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