89 Year Old L.A. Woman Vanishes, Is Found Alone In Maine Four Years Later
Sarah Cheiker had lived in the small bungalow in the Fairfax district for decades, first with her mom and then by herself.
But one day in 2008 she vanished, and a bulldozer showed up to demolish her longtime home.
"I was shocked. We figured she was dead," said Jim Caccavo, who had been Cheiker's next-door neighbor for 35 years. When he couldn't find out what had become of the 89-year-old woman, he filed a missing person's report.
Four years later, two FBI agents rolled into the neighborhood and starting knocking on doors, asking questions and telling residents that Cheiker had been found alive — abandoned and alone in a weathered cabin near the coast of Maine.
Someone had moved Cheiker into the cabin and left her there. Alerted by neighbors, authorities in tiny Lincoln County said they found her living in squalor.
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