Audrey Backeberg of Wisconsin was last seen in 1962 when she was 20 years old Audrey Backenberg was reported missing from Wisconsin in 1962, aged 20 She has recently been discovered alive and well, and living with a new name and a new husband Backenberg was fleeing her allegedly abusive husband at the time of her disappearance Audrey Backeberg,

She disappeared from a small city in south-central Wisconsin 62 years ago after reportedly hitchhiking with her family’s babysitter and catching a bus to Indianapolis.

A missing Wisconsin mother found alive more than 60 years after vanishing was happily living a new life with a new husband all along, according to police. Audrey Backeberg, 82, spent six decades living under a new identity after running away from the Reedsburg home she shared with her two kids and allegedly abusive husband in 1962,