Police say the missing sisters are Gianna and Samantha Rucki. Gianna and Samantha Rucki hadn’t been seen in public since April 2013 after disappearing.
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Minnesota authorities on Wednesday located two teenage sisters from Lakeville who have been missing for more than two years.
They are returning home to southeastern Minnesota after Lakeville police found evidence in the St. Cloud, Minn., home of Dede Evavold, a leader in a local “protective parent” movement.
The family was the subject of a previous investigation by Fox9 over “parent alienation”, where the girls told the news outlet their father physically and emotionally abused them, but David Rucki accused their mother of turning the girls against him.
Police say the sisters were in good health when found at the horse farm. Authorities suspect an underground support group has been helping to hide the girls all this time.
In November 2013, a Dakota County judge granted David Rucki full custody of his children.
Lakeville police believe Grazzini-Rucki, the girls’ mother, aided her daughters in leaving their father, and said in an October statement that “the act of taking the girls, as well as the continued act of keeping the girls in hiding, has involved a network of individuals”.
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She waived extradition and was booked into Dakota County Jail; she remained there Wednesday in lieu of $1 million bail. “Both the Dakota County Attorney’s Office and the Lakeville Police Department ask for respect and privacy of the Rucki family during the reunification period”, it finished.
