Missing for three years autistic boy found 1300 km from

Missing for three years, autistic boy found 1,300 km from home

It has an incredible history of Oswalt Connerjack, a 19yearold boy with autism, was found 1,300 km from his home three years after his disappearance. The young man had disappeared from Clearlake, California, at the age of 16. It was September 2019 and just days before he lost sight of him, Oswalt was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. The hypothesis that this diagnosis may have upset him was for some time the basis for the alleged reason that may have prompted him to leave home and after 3 years the parents had almost lost all hope of finding him , but they had never stopped searching for him. , until it was noticed by some agents.

Oswalt fell asleep outside a store in Summit County, Utah. The police noticed him because he was shivering from the cold. Approached by the two agents, he told them that he had been living on the streets for the past two weeks. He agreed to get in the car to warm up, but his attitude made the police suspicious, who after fingerprinting him searched the missing persons file until they identified the missing person Complaint of the parents from 2019. At this point, the family was informed and his mother’s partner got in the car, drove over 4 hours to reach him and take him home, not without first thanking the men who made the boys had long found . .

For a long time, Oswalt’s relatives distributed flyers with his face they appealed on TV and circulated his photos hoping that someone would recognize him and convince him to go home. Social media was one of the main channels used by Oswalt’s parents and friends to spread the word and help with research, but there was no sign of the boy for three years. The young man seemed to have vanished into thin air without a trace, as if he could have vanished.

“I never stopped looking for him. There wasn’t a day that I didn’t go looking for him,” said his mother Suzanne Flint upon learning her son had been found 1,300 miles from home. Residents of the area had repeatedly reported his presence in the city in the past few days: given the low temperatures, it is not common to see a homeless person in this area. Many would have offered him refuge, “but he, who has never been aggressive anyway, has always done so refused and he would not give his name.” It remains to be seen how Oswalt’s life has unfolded over the past three years, but only he will be able to share the details with family and investigators if he chooses to.