Miraculous True Stories Of Lost Children Who Were FOUND!

#1 Bank Robbers Kidnap Kids From Separate Homes.

Elijah Wong, 2, and Donnie Simmons, 7, were taken Jan. 12 from two separate homes by their biological mother, Antoinette Wong and her boyfriend Keith Rogers. Wong and Rogers spent over a month with the boys while robbing banks at least three banks at gunpoint from Louisana all the way to Arizona. The boys were in danger.

Once in Arizona cops noticed a car that was swerving in and out of its lane near Eloy, some 50 miles southeast of Phoenix. After pulling them over Arizona trooper Ashton Shewey became tipped off when Rogers gave them a false name. The adults were arrested for outstanding warrants in connection with homicides and armed robbery. The boys were brought back to safety and in protective custody.

#2 Caught in the "Crossfire"

Xiao Yun left home at the age of 14 after a fight with her parents. The Chinese runaway was presumed to be dead by her parents and others after a decade. The homeless teen was resourceful though and used her talents as a gamer to make her way on the streets of Jinhua, Jiangxi, and Hangzhou.

She would set up in Internet cafes and play several different games, her favorite was "Crossfire." She was good enough that other players would pay her for playing their characters for them. When not doing that she would make money working in the cafes as a temp cashier. She would also sleep00 in the cafes themselves or the public bath houses.

She was on only caught after giving a police officer a false identity. They charged her with using a false ID but the incident also paved the way to rebuilding the burnt bridges between her and her parents. The argument that drove her away at 14 is now, water under the bridge.

#3 A Change In Numbers

Julian Hernandez didn't realize that he had been missing since 2002 until he discovered his status himself in 2015. His mother reported that his father took him to preschool one day and they never returned. It turns out that when Julian started applying for college his father had set him up a fake Social Security number and had been living under a false name for over 13 years. A school counselor helped him find himself in the National Center For Missing and Exploited Children database. His father was charged for his actions.

#4 A Stunning Revelation

Eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was walking to the school bus when Phillip and Nancy Garrido saw Jayce, shot her with a stun gun and dragged her into their car. They took her to their home where they kept her in a shed in their back yard for 18 years. During her captivity, she had two daughters by Phillip Garrido. The first was when she was thirteen and the second when she was sixteen. Philip was sentenced to 431 years in prison and his wife was given 36 years to life.

#5 An Angel For Timmy

Steven Stayner was 7 when he was kidnapped in Meced, CA on December 4th, 1972 by a man named Kenneth Parnell. Kenneth repeatedly assaulted and tortured Steven and brainwashed him into thinking his parents gave him away over the course of 8 years. Parnell was so successful at this that he even enrolled Steven in school, changing his name.

Things changed as Steven grew and Kenneth was no longer interested in him. Kenneth kidnapped a five-year-old named Timmy to replace the aging Steven.. Once Timmy came into the house, Steven vowed to escape with Timmy and return him to his home in Ukiah, CA. After Steven and Timmy escaped, they hitchhiked to Ukiah. There, the police picked up the boys. "I know my first name is Steven." He told the police, although he could no longer recall what his last name was.

Unfortunately, Kenneth got off light with just 5 years in prison for torturing and kidnapping a boy for 8 years. Things didn't get better for Steven either. His relationship with his father never recovered due to the perception he had of Steven's assault. Then in 1989, Steven perished in a motorcycle accident when he was just 24 years old. However, he still remains a hero to Timmy.

#6 Case Closed

When Steven Carter was a baby his biological mother had kidnapped him and fled. Then when he was 4 she's put him up for adoption in an orphanage, leaving his father searching for his son, Marx Panama Barnes by birth, for over 30 years. Steve had always known that he was adopted from an orphanage in Hawaii, but as he was looking through online case files, he came across a photo that looked eerily like a young him. "My first thought was, "Oh my God, that's me," said Carter. One DNA test later, the kidnapping of Marx Panama Barnes was solved by himself, Steven Carter.

#7 Not A Smart Move

In an attempt to have a second wife, crazy fundamentalist Mormon named Brian David Mitchell kidnapped 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart right out of her own bedroom. After kidnapping her they kept Elizabeth tied to a tree in their backyard in Sandy, Utah, only 18 miles from the Smart family home.

Not surprisingly, Smart was recovered 9 months after she was taken. Mitchell and Barzee frequently took her into Salt Lake City to attend events, making her wear a veil and ordering her not to speak to anyone. Eventually, the strange behavior was noticed and investigators raided the Mitchel/Barzee home, finding Elizabeth there.

#8 No One Beats Grandma

Richard Wayne Landers was five years old when his grandparents packed him up, moved and changed their identities after a custody dispute with his mother. He had lived with his grandparents since birth and his mother was homeless at the time. Richard stands by his grandparents' decision and in a Facebook post, said he was "where I needed to be."

#9 A Prickly Situation

After kidnapping eleven-year-old Shawn Hornbeck, Michael J. Devlin immediately began a regiment of constant abuse, brainwashing, and deception. Four years later, Shawn was rescued and it was discovered he had often been seen in public. He had even posted on the web page that his parents had set up to find him asking how long would they continue to look for him. He signed his post as "Shawn Devlin."

#10 People Under The Stairs

Danielle Cramer went missing at age 15 in June 2006 but was discovered by police a year later, locked in a secret upstairs cupboard in West Hartford, CT. Police had gone to the house to arrest Adam Gault, 41, whom they suspected of murder, but instead managed to free Danielle.