A 28-year-old woman who went missing near Toluca Lake over the weekend, igniting an all-out search and desperate pleas from her parents to help find her, was discovered alive, the Los Angeles Police Department said Wednesday.
Laura Lynne Stacy was found by the LAPD walking along the 14 Freeway near Avenue K in the Lancaster area at 2:30 p.m., the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said.
She was taken to see her parents and was loaded into an ambulance for evaluation.
Authorities did not immediately release details about what had happened to her.
Stacy's vehicle was discovered Tuesday night in Lancaster after she disappeared Saturday near her apartment in the 3600 block of Barham Boulevard, two blocks south of Forest Lawn Drive, the Los Angeles Police Department reported.
Stacy moved from Colorado to California recently, authorities said.
Stacy's car, a 2005 black Acura TL with a Colorado license plate, was found in a remote area in Lancaster on Tuesday night, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Her phone was found in a puddle Monday at a Santa Clarita park, nearly 30 miles from Stacy's apartment. The person who found the phone texted Stacy's parents around 5 a.m.
Authorities said Tuesday that there were reported sightings of Stacy Sunday and Monday, including near the site where the phone was found. Family members said she last spoke with a family member, a sister, Sunday at noon.
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"It doesn't feel real, like a horrible nightmare I want to wake up from," said Marcie Stacy, her mother, who flew up with her husband, Steve, from Colorado to try to help in the search.
They were not immediatelty available for comment after she was found.
Stacy had been studying to be a realtor and recently got into the arts and photography. Her parents believe she may have been meeting people about a job.
