A look at some cases involving children who were found years or months after they were kidnapped:
Shawn Hornbeck
In October 2002, Hornbeck — then 11 — was kidnapped while riding his bike to a friend’s house in Washington County, Mo. In January 2007, authorities found Hornbeck and another kidnapped boy, Ben Ownby, in the suburban St. Louis apartment of Michael Devlin. Ownby, 13, had been abducted four days earlier. Devlin was sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping and abusing the boys.
Elizabeth Smart
Smart was 14 when she was taken in June 2002 from her Salt Lake City bedroom.
She was found nine months later, walking the streets of a Salt Lake City suburb with Brian David Mitchell. Mitchell, a 55-year-old itinerant street preacher, was indicted in March 2008 on charges of kidnapping and unlawful transportation of a minor.
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Steven Stayner
Stayner was kidnapped in 1972 while walking home from school at age 7 in the Central Valley town of Merced. After Stayner escaped captivity in 1980, Kenneth Eugene Parnell was convicted of kidnapping Stayner and a second boy, 5-year-old Timmy White. Stayner died in a motorcycle accident in 1989 at age 24.