US: Missing girl found in hidden room

Police investigating the year-long disappearance of a 15-year-old American girl said they found her yesterday, pale but alive, locked in a hidden room in a home in Connecticut owned by an acquaintance of her parents.

Bloomfield police went to the home in West Hartford to serve search warrants for DNA and other evidence and found the girl locked inside a tiny room hidden underneath a staircase and blocked from view by a dresser.