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Missing California teen Connerjack Oswalt found safe in Utah after three years

Andrew Chamings
April 14, 2022 | Updated: April 15, 2022 7:41 a.m.



Missing persons notice for Connerjack Oswalt.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

After three years of desperation, the family of missing California teen Connerjack Oswalt is overjoyed after the teenager was found this week in Park City, Utah. ... In September 2019, then-16-year-old Oswalt was reported missing by the family in Clearlake, Calif.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System says that Oswalt, who was diagnosed with autism in 2014, had "a history of running away." Prior to his disappearance in September 2019, NamUs reported that he went missing in May of the same year after his mother took his phone away; he fled his home in Clearlake, taking only his cat.

He then reportedly went missing again on September 28, 2019.

Over recent weeks, reports came in to the Summit County Sheriff's Office of a man pushing a shopping cart in Summit Park in Park City. The last report sighted him sleeping outside Jeremy's Store, a convenience store by a gas station near the I-80.

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