Wisconsin Woman Missing Nearly 63 Years Was Found "Alive And Well," Police Say

CBS Minnesota

May 5, 2025

A Wisconsin woman who went missing more than 60 years ago was recently found "alive and well," authorities revealed last week.

Audrey Backeberg was 20 years old when she first disappeared from her home in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, in July 1962, the Sauk County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.

Backeberg reportedly left her family's home on July 7, 1962 and the family's babysitter claimed the two of them hitchhiked to Madison, Wisconsin, before taking a Greyhound bus to Indianapolis, Indiana, the Wisconsin Department of Justice said.

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