A 4-year-old girl who had been missing since 2019 has been discovered alive. Paislee Shultis vanished from her Cayuga Heights, New York, home over two years ago.
Police discovered her inside her paternal grandfather’s house on Monday. About 45 miles south of Albany, in the New York house,
Paislee was concealed behind a stairway. The kidnapping scene is around 160 kilometres from the residence.
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The Saugerties Police Department said that after getting a tip on the child’s whereabouts, police looked into the house. The shocking finding was discovered by Detective Erik Thiele.
He looked at the steps in the basement and saw a blanket between the gaps. As a result, he started removing the steps one at a time.