Missing Samantha Rucki and twin Gianna found living on isolated horse ranch
Two Minnesota girls who disappeared in 2013 amid a custody dispute have been found alive and well living on a horse farm.
Samantha Rucki, 17, and Gianna Rucki, 16, ran away from home in April 2013 as their parents battled each other for custody, but were found on Wednesday as police executed a search warrant.
An investigation lead police to the White Horse Ranch in Herman, about 160 miles west of the Twin Cities.
According to The Star Tribine, investigators believe an underground network of family court critics were hiding the sisters there.
Samantha Rucki, 17 (left), and Gianna Rucki, 16 (right), disappeared from Lakeville in April 2013, and were found on Wednesday living on a horse ranch in western Minnesota
A search warrant was executed at The White Horse Ranch near Herman (pictured), about 30 miles west of Alexandria, on Wednesday afternoon. Police believe the girls had received help from an 'underground network'
They allege the girls' mother, Sandra Grazzini-Rucki, helped them run away from their father.
She was arrested last month.
The two girls had not been seen in public for more than two years.
Investigators found their way to White Horse Ranch after searching the St. Cloud home of Dede Evavold, a supporter of a movement known as the 'Protective Parent'.
The group is critical of the family court system and believes children are commonly put in the care of the wrong parent, often in abusive situations.
Evidence found in Evavold's home suggested the sisters may be living at White Horse Ranch.
The ranch website says it is a place where 'broken children and hurting horses are able to bring each other to a place of healing through God’s unconditional love'.
The search warrant was served at 1.20pm Wednesday.
The girls' mother, Sandra Grazzini-Rucki, was arrested in Florida on October 18 (left) and has since been extradited to Minnesota (pictured in her mugshot there, right) to face charges of of felony deprivation of parental rights
At 4.45 p.m., a SUV pulled out of the ranch with two people on the backseat covered in a blanket.
Gianna and Samantha were 13 and 14 when they ran from home on April 19, 2013.
Their parents were fighting for custody, and the girls said their father had been abusing them.
However a psychologist concluded the girls had been brainwashed by their mother.
The father, David Rucki, denied abusing the girls.
When a court found no evidence of the abuse, Rucki was granted sole custody.
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ShareInformation surfaced in April this year that Sandra Grazzi-Rucki helped her children run away, and she was arrested in Florida on October 18.
Grazzi-Rucki has been charged with three counts of felony deprivation of parental rights.
She is being held on $1 million bail.
Through her attorney, Grazzi-Rucki denied being involved in the disappearance of her daughters.
David Rucki has not commented since his daughters were found.
His attorney, Lisa Elliott, told The Star Tribune: 'When I spoke with David, he said the news was anti-climactic, because he knows this is the start of a whole next step in getting them the help they need and finding out what happened to them the last two and a half years.'
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