Lula Ann Gillespie-Miller vanished in 1974 after the birth of her third child. An Indiana woman who went missing after surrendering custody of her kids more than 40 years was found alive, well and living under an alias in tiny Texas town.
Lula Ann Gillespie-Miller, 69, gave authorities permission to pass along her contact information to her now-grown daughter after investigators found her living in rural Texas Thursday, Indiana State Police said in a statement.
Indiana trooper Scott Jarvis tracked down the missing woman this week.Since she has not committed any crimes, officials are not releasing her pseudonym or naming the exact town where she now lives.
Gillespie-Miller had just given birth to her third child when she ran away from her Laurel, Ind., home. Believing she was too young to be a mom, the 28-year-old signed custody of the kids to her own parents and vanished.
Indiana Detective Sergeant Scott Jarvis took on the case in 2014 after the Doe Network, a website that advocates for the families of missing persons, contacted police. Jarvis began looking into women with similarities to the missing Gillespie-Miller, and eventually narrowed in on one woman who lived in Tennessee in the 1980s before moving to Texas.
Police did not detail what tipped Jarvis off, but he asked Texas Rangers to touch base with the woman —and she confessed her true identity to them on Thursday.
“Gillespie-Miller could offer no explanation as to why she left her Indiana life behind in 1974,” police said in a statement.
Gillespie-Miller and her daughter, Tammy, plan to make contact this weekend.
Source: nydailynews.com
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