BRYAN, Texas (AP) -- 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, Kentucky, 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."

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.

story (http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/06/woman.found.ap/index.html)

what a brat...

I cant believe that girl would be so cruel as to do that to her family. I can understand being mad about something but to do something that cruel is just crazy. Also funny that she used her own name and social security number and no one knew it.

I've thought about "going missing" several times. Especially when my ex started stalking me. I'm sure it happens all the time.

I've thought about "going missing" several times. Especially when my ex started stalking me. I'm sure it happens all the time.

Yeah, but not just because you had bad grades on your report card. I ran away from home when I was 16 and only contacted my mom a year ago. It takes a lot of sh!t to happen before you run away from home.

Florence Ya'll! she lives near Big Bone Lick park

Can you say "childhood abuses", LOL. Kids don't run away because they are brats or their mommies yell at them about bad grades.