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Questions surround the return of a teenage girl who disappeared on her walk home from school nine months ago.

 

Abigail Hernandez vanished when she left her school in Conway, New Hampshire, on Oct. 9 and, aside from one letter to her mother this winter, there had been no indication by officials that there was any trace of her until she was reunited with her parents on Sunday.

Investigators were remaining tight-lipped about the 15-year-old's return, refusing to even say how the girl was reunited with her mother, Zenya Hernandez.

 

9 Months After Vanishing, New Hampshire Girl Is Home

 

The criminal investigation into the teen's disappearance has not stopped, authorities said.

"We have said from the beginning and we continue to believe that this was a 14-year-old girl who went missing in October," Associate Attorney General Jane Young told ABC News. "She was gone for nine months. She didn't have the means to orchestrate and facilitate this on her own."

 

Abigail's whereabouts during her disappearance remain a mystery, with the only two locations publicly connected to the case being her school, Kennett High School in North Conway, New Hampshire, and her mother's home in Conway.

According to the website established to bring attention to her case, Abigail was last seen walking on a path near a power line near her school at 2:30 p.m. on Oct. 9. Her final text to a friend was sent at 2:57 p.m. that afternoon and her cell network noted last contact with the phone at 3:07 p.m.

She did not have money, IDs or any additional sets of clothes with her when she went missing, according to the website.

The biggest break in the case appeared to come in November when, according to officials, her mother received a letter from Abby postmarked in late October.

 

"Our worst fear right now is that while she could have left willingly, someone may now be coercing her, someone may now be manipulating her," FBI Special Agent In Charge Kieran Ramsey said in a December press conference detailing the letter. "When we received this letter, I'll tell you it was unprecedented. ... It gave us hope."

That hope was rewarded Sunday when Abigail was reunited with her sister and mother, who said, "Today, we are the happiest people on earth."


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"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality." Edgar Allan Poe.

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UPDATE:

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A 34-year-old man was arrested and charged Monday with kidnapping a New Hampshire teenage girl who returned home last week after vanishing nine months ago.

 

Nathaniel Kibby was arrested without incident at his Gorham home, about 28 miles north of where the girl lives, and was charged with felony kidnapping, authorities said.

Police allege Kibby knowingly confined Abigail "Abby" Hernandez, then 14, on Oct. 9, sometime after she left Conway High School for her home. Abby returned home the night of July 20, but authorities have not explained the circumstances of her return.

Attorney General Joseph Foster said Monday law enforcement officials have worked around the clock to determine the facts surrounding the girl's disappearance and return. He said Abby provided the police with details of her kidnapping sufficient to warrant Kibby's arrest.

Kibby is scheduled for arraignment Tuesday at Conway District Court. It was not immediately known if Kibby has a lawyer. Foster said he will have a press briefing after the arraignment.

Abby's mother, Zenya Hernandez, said in a television interview Monday she believes Abby, now 15, did not run away and didn't know the man believed to have driven off with her. Police released a sketch of him last week based on Abby's description.

Abby also issued a statement, which was posted on Facebook, thanking people who searched for her and saying she believes their hopes and prayers "played a major role in my release."

Zenya Hernandez told NBC's "Today" that when her daughter returned home, she was thin and pale and had "a look in her eyes I've never, ever seen before. And that's something that's haunting me, and I think will haunt me for the rest of my life."

The mother also said in the television interview that rumors that her daughter was pregnant aren't true.

Roger Lawrence, 66, who lives in the same mobile home park as Kibby, said he met him last summer while Kibby was walking his dog. He didn't know him well but exchanged pleasantries with him.

"He seemed to be nice, down to earth. He was very polite," Lawrence said.

Lawrence said he didn't see Kibby all winter, but saw him Saturday, walking past his home to get his mail. He was shocked to hear of the arrest.

"No words can explain it. I was ready to wring his neck. I was very surprised," he said. "I was wondering what happened to that little girl myself, seeing it on the news, thinking, 'Where could she have gone?'"

Donald St. Germain, 76, who lives three trailers down from Kibby's home said he doesn't know Kibby and rarely saw him.

"The only time I saw him was this spring when he had to fix the roof on his trailer," he said.

St. Germain said he noticed police in the mobile home park around noon Monday.

An hour later, several FBI agents knocked on his door and told him they had arrested someone accused of keeping a girl captive.

Foster said when the girl disappeared she apparently had no way to get about or secure food, shelter or other necessities on her own.

Townspeople who searched and prayed that she would return are relieved, but also are looking for answers about where she's been and how she got home.

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Associated Press writer Holly Ramer contributed to this report

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