Teen girl kidnapped in Chicago is found alive in Virginia after being held captive for 4 years
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A teenager who vanished from outside a Chicago movie theater four years ago has been found alive, held captive the entire time in a small frame home in Blacksburg, Virginia, 730 miles from where she disappeared.

Joniah Walker was 15 when she took an Uber from Milwaukee to Chicago on June 23, 2022, to meet a man who had arranged the ride and who had been communicating with her online for years. Investigators say Owen Anderson, now 37, took her that day and held her ever since, sexually and physically abusing her throughout.

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