An elderly California woman, who disappeared in 2008, was found years later across country in a Maine shack where she said she was taken to die.
The Los Angeles Times reported on the story of Sarah Cheiker, who was found in 2012 alive and alone in an abandoned, filthy Maine cabin four years after she was reported missing.
Her neighbor, Jim Caccavo, filed a missing persons report for Cheiker after the elderly woman seemed to vanish and her property was sold.
The tiny shack she was left in was run down and dark and there was only spoiled food there to eat.
"It was a place I wouldn't have let my dog live in," said Lincoln County Sheriff's Det. Robert McFetridge.
Cheiker claimed that she was taken from her home by three people who allegedly drove her 3,000 miles away and left her in those conditions to die.
CBSLA noted that Barbara and Nicholas Davis and their relative Jonathan Stevens allegedly befriended Cheiker and conned her out of her home. The Davis’ then drove the woman to the remote cabin in Maine, went shopping and spent her money.
According to court documents, the trio struck a deal with prosecutors and received probation.
As for Cheiker, she now lives in an assisted-living facility in Maine where her former neighbor Caccavo previously traveled to and visited with her.