Missing Texas A&M University Student Found Alive After 7 Years

Here is a heartening and hopeful story for the friends and family of Natalee Holloway. A Texas A&M University student, advertisement Brandi Stahr who had been feared murdered after disappearing nearly seven years ago has been found alive and working in Kentucky.

BRYAN, Texas – A Texas A&M University student who had been feared murdered after disappearing nearly seven years ago has been found alive and working in Kentucky, according to authorities.

Brandi Stahr went missing in October 1998, and police spent hours searching for her body in wooded areas. They questioned a serial rapist and murderer about her just hours before he was executed last year.

But a telephone tip led investigators to Florence, Ky., where Stahr has been working for the last five years at a Sam’s Club, said Texas Ranger Frank Malinak.

“We thought we were dealing with a missing persons case,” Malinak said. “But, in actuality, we were dealing with a person who did not want to be found and was in hiding.”

Family troubles
Stahr, 27, hid from her family after she and her mother, Ann Dickenson, got into an argument over bad grades she received during her sophomore year and her family stopped paying for school.

For the last five years, Stahr worked under her real name, using her Social Security number. But police said they were unable to locate her that way because they don’t have access to IRS records.

Looks like there was a little trouble in paradise.

Dickenson and Stahr haven’t reunited yet, but have talked on the phone. Stahr told her sister the family should not bother visiting, but her mother said nothing will stop her.

“We’re going. I’m going. Even if I have to sit out in a (Sam’s Club) parking lot to see her,” Dickenson said.

Although Stahr committed no crime in her disappearance, investigators spent a lot of money and time looking for her, Malinak said.

Boy its hard to tell the crimes from the runaways these days.

Obviously this scenario in this case is much different than the well publicized Aruba missing teen. However, it does show us that there can be other alternatives to missing individuals other than thinking the worst.

Keep the faith.