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How teen held captive for 500 days used online video game Among Us to escape

The Independent·Joe Sommerlad·about 8 hours ago
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A teenager held captive for 521 days after disappearing from her home in Utah finally managed to escape using the online video game Among Us , according to reports.

​The girl was 15 when she went missing in Garden City on May 29, 2025, sparking a nationwide, multi-agency manhunt. The search came to an end nearly 18 months later on November 1 this year, when the teen was finally rescued from a house in Huntington, Oregon .

Adam Hunter Harmel, 39, has since been arrested and charged with transporting a minor to another state to engage in criminal sexual activity, an offense that carries a mandatory minimum 10-year prison sentence on conviction.

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