Authorities said that two teen siblings who have been missing since 2013, were found alive at a farm in Minnesota on Wednesday.
The Minnesota Star Tribune reported that the girls now 16 and 17, were found on a ranch in Lakeville, which is located in the Western part of the state.
Officials said that at the time Gianna and Samantha Rucki disappeared, their parents had went through a custody dispute in which the girls’ father, David Rucki, was awarded full custody. Their mother, Sandra Grazzini-Rucki, was later arrested on a charge of felony deprivation of parental rights but would not disclose her children’s whereabouts.
Investigators believe that an underground network of family court critics had been helping hide the children all this time.
"Both Samantha and Gianna were found safe and in seemingly good health at the residence where the Search Warrant was executed," Lakeville police said in statement. "The sisters will return to Dakota County where the unification process can begin."