A Lithuanian woman who left for Malaysia and lost contact with her parents was found after almost four years of searches.
In January 2019, a woman from Raseiniai in central Lithuania left for Malaysia, where she went to visit her internet friend. She was 19 years old at the time, the Šiauliai County Chief Police Commissariat said in a press release.
The woman travelled via Finland and Qatar and informed her parents that she successfully reached Malaysia a few days later. After that, they did not hear from her again.
The parents contacted the Raseiniai District Police Commissariat and asked them to start a search for their missing daughter. The Malaysian police could not tell whether the Lithuanian woman was in their country, so the officers turned to the internet.
The investigators found the Facebook account of the Malaysian Lithuanian community and got in touch with its chairwoman Rita Ruke.
She urged the local detectives to check the location of all the possible phone numbers and addresses of the Lithuanian girl sent by the Raseiniai investigators.
The last check was carried out in December last year when Lithuanian officials learned that online purchases were made in the name of the missing woman.
At the request of Ruke, a detective went to the delivery address and found the missing girl. It was agreed that she would contact the Raseiniai District Police.
On December 20 last year, the woman had a video chat with Chief Investigator Vytautas Globis. “I am alive, well, and very happy,” she told him.
She said she left Lithuania and broke contact with her relatives because she did not want anything to do with them.
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