Woman Missing Since She Was 14 Is Found

For the last six months Kach would visit J.J.'s Deli Mart two blocks from where she lived in a Pittsburgh suburb, police said. Kach, always neatly dressed, befriended the convenience store owner Joseph Sparico and his family.

Then, earlier this week, she told Sparico something extraordinary.

"'My name is not Nikki Allen, it's Tanya Nicole Kach,"' he recalled her saying in a frightened voice. "'If you go to a Web site for missing children, you will see me there.'"

Sparico said Kach told him she wasn't allowed out after dark, and that she thought nobody wanted her other than her boyfriend, who threatened her.

He called his son _ a retired police officer who recognized Kach's name _ and a missing children hot line, helping to reunite the woman with her family.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/23/AR2006032300404_2.html

story! I am so glad that young woman found her family. I cannot even begin to imagine what I would do if I were to lose one of my kids, even temporarily!

Welcome!

Jenn

I imagine her family must have believed she was dead. What a wonderful surprise this must have been.

I have a very uneasy "something is wrong with this story" feeling about it. Maybe it's just the way the girl is all dressed up and overgroomed like she's shopping for her made-for-TV movie.