Missing for more than two years, a teenager has been found alive and well

It’s an unbelievable story. After his disappearance on September 28, 2019, an 18-year-old autistic young man was found 1,200 km from his childhood home in the United States. He will have spent two and a half years away from home before finally being located and identified by Summit County (Utah) police officers, reports NBC News.

Despite a search launched in Clearlake, California immediately after his disappearance, authorities had never found any trace of the then 16-year-old teenager. Until the local Summit County Police Department tried to help a teenager who was sleeping outside in extremely cold temperatures.

Connerjack Oswalt is autistic and was found in Utah after being reported missing in California in 2019.

TONIGHT on @fuchs13 at 5:30 p.m., like @SummitCountySO MPs were able to reunite the teenager with his family.@MissingKids | @Clearlake_CA pic.twitter.com/373Upu8xMp

— 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐞𝐞 (@brian_schnee) April 13, 2022

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It is a truly wondrous discovery

But he always refused the help of the agents and never wanted to deny his identity. Finally, on April 9, a motorist again reported the presence of this frozen young man near a gas station. The police offered him a warm-up in their car and they were then able to take his fingerprints.

Officers discovered a poster of the young man in the National Center for Missing Children’s database, leading them to contact Clearlake Police and the teenager’s parents, who immediately rushed to locate their son. “It’s beyond anything we can imagine. It is a truly wondrous find,” said Lt. Andrew Wright of the Summit County Sheriff’s Office. What the young man did during these two years is not known for the time being.