Daughter finds missing mom 52 years after she vanished

By Henry Austin, NBC News contributor

When Canadian police were told in 1965 that Alaska native Lucy Johnson has been missing for four years, investigators treated her disappearance as a murder.

Her husband Marvin was hauled in for questioning and officers excavated the backyard of the home they shared with their young daughter Linda in Surrey, British Columbia.

But more than five decades since her September 1961 disappearance, she has now been found alive in Yukon.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police?highlighted Johnson's cold case last month?and her now-adult daughter purchased ads in a newspaper in northern B.C.

"We received a phone call from a woman in the Yukon who called and claimed that she had seen the picture of the missing person in the free newspapers and said the missing person we were looking for was actually her mother,"??Cpl. Bert Paquet, spokesman for Surrey RCMP, told the?Canadian Broadcasting Company.?"The stars aligned, the timing was perfect."

Police confirmed that Lucy Johnson, who is now aged 77, has another family in Yukon.

Her husband died in the late 1990s. He was initially considered a suspect because he did not inform police that she was missing until May 14, 1965.

But when the backyard dig turned up no evidence, the case went cold for almost 52 years.

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This story was originally published on Fri Jul 19, 2013 8:01 AM EDT

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