CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A woman who fled with her 8-year-old daughter a decade ago during a custody dispute turned herself in Monday to face trial. 
 
 Genevieve Kelley of Whitefield disappeared with her daughter, Mary, into Central America in the fall of 2004 after her attempt to prove her ex-husband had harmed the child backfired. 
 
 The U.S. Marshals Service investigated numerous tips through the years. Shortly after her daughter turned 18 in February and was no longer subject to the family court, Kelley, 50, made contact. Her lawyer said she wanted to face a jury on her custodial interference charge. She said her daughter is safe. 
 
 Police felt Kelley's ex-husband, Mark Nunes, was unfairly accused. He was never charged with a crime. 
 
 Kelley turned herself in Monday in Lancaster, New Hampshire, and was arrested, Deputy U.S. Marshal Jamie Berry said. He said her lawyer and Coos County Attorney John McCormick were arguing bail. 
 
 Mark Nunes hasn't given up hope of being reunited with his daughter and hopes to learn more about her. 
 
 "Is she alive? Is she safe?" he said Monday. 
 
 It wasn't immediately known if Mary Nunes was in the courtroom. In an interview last week, Kelley's lawyer, Alan Rosenfeld, said his client would likely appear on her own first. 
 
 "She wants to be vindicated," Alan Rosenfeld said. "She wants a trial." 
 
 Rosenfeld, a Colorado attorney who specializes in child advocacy and domestic violence cases, had asked prosecutor McCormick twice this year if he would agree to recommend to a judge that Kelley voluntarily return and not be jailed unless she is convicted. He said she would not be a flight risk, but McCormick disagreed, noting she left in the middle of a family court proceeding in 2004. 
 
 "She fears there's a chance she'll be held, a fear that's probably well founded," McCormick had said. 
 
 Rosenfeld had said if things didn't work out, "she's just going to show up unannounced one day." 
 
 Mary Nunes, presumably, would be a witness at the trial, he said. 
 
 "She was old enough to know what was going on," he said. 
 
 Mary was 7 when her father last saw her. 
 
 "I am happy that Genevieve Kelly is in custody and will face justice for these charges, but we will all be the happiest, when we know Mary Nunes is safe," U.S. Marshal David Cargill Jr. said. 
 
 In an emailed statement, Nunes said he is heartbroken about his daughter. 
 
 "We want to say publicly that we as Mary's family love her, look forward to her coming home and to keep an open mind as we believe that she has been told falsehoods and misstatements on the events of her youth," he said. ||||| Missing girl taken by mom in custody battle found after 11 years; stepdad arrested 
 
 By DAVE SOLOMON 
 
 New Hampshire Union Leader 
 
 Mary Nunes, 19, shown at the Atlanta International Airport on Wednesday. (Photo Credit Klein Investigations and Consulting) 
 
 After more than a decade in hiding, a New Hampshire girl spirited out of the country in the middle of a custody dispute is back in the United States.Mary Nunes, now 19, was taken into custody by U.S. Marshals in Atlanta and is on the way to an undisclosed location in Colorado.Nunes and her stepfather, Scott Kelley, were taken into custody at Atlanta International Airport early Wednesday afternoon. Kelley was arrested on a kidnapping warrant and is being held pending extradition to New Hampshire.Nunes, her mother Genevieve Kelley and her stepfather had not been seen publicly in New Hampshire since 2004, until the girl’s mother surrendered to authorities last November.Genevieve Kelley, seeking medical treatment for a son born to her and Scott Kelley while they were on the run, agreed to face charges but refused to disclose the location of her husband and daughter.Genevieve Kelley and Mark Nunes, father of Mary Nunes, were embroiled in a contentious custody dispute, in which Kelley alleged that Nunes was sexually abusing their daughter. After those charges were deemed unfounded by police and court authorities, Genevieve Kelly, Scott Kelley and Mary Nunes disappeared.“We love Mary and are overjoyed that she is alive and back in the U.S.,” said Mark Nunes in a statement released by a private investigator hired by the Nunes family. “Our hearts and home are open to her, and we will do everything we can to insure she remains safe and healthy.”Nunes said he remains concerned about Mary’s emotional and physical wellbeing. “We look forward to the day our family is finally reunited,” he said.That will be up to Mary Nunes, who has not seen her biological father since she was 8.“She is 19 years old. She will have to make that decision for herself,” said Philip Klein, a private investigator who specializes in child abduction cases related to marital disputes.The long odyssey of Mary Nunes came to an end this morning, when U.S. Marshals were notified by officials at the U.S. embassy in Costa Rica that Mary, Scott Kelley and their attorney, Alan Rosenfeld, had walked into the embassy.According to Klein, they were told Scott Kelley could return to the U.S. without facing charges. “This was not an arranged surrender,” Klein said. “Scott Kelley thought he was coming back to the U.S. without charges. That’s what he was told at the embassy. He was tricked.”Kelley was immediately arrested upon exiting the aircraft, according to Klein, and Mary was given the option of deciding what she wanted to do. She stayed with Rosenfeld and she is en route to an undisclosed location in Colorado, where his practice is based.“The family is elated to have Mary back in the United States, and they would like to have Mary be independently examined,” said Klein.He said the 19-year-old told U.S. marshals that she had only a 10th-grade education, “because she was moved from place to place and she was on the run.”“We are urging the county attorney in New Hampshire to prosecute both Genevieve and Scott Kelley to the fullest extent possible, and send a message that you do not kidnap children and take them to foreign countries,” said Klein.Kelley remains on track for a May 8 trial after Judge Peter Bornstein on March 24 denied a motion to dismiss the state’s charge of custodial interference pending in Coos County.County Attorney John McCormick claims that Kelley, accompanied by Scott Kelley, took Mary first to Colorado and then to Central America, where Genevieve Kelley’s passport indicated that she entered Honduras through Guatemala.As a condition of her bail, Kelley is not allowed to have contact with her daughter. 
 
 
 
 Crime ||||| Story highlights Genevieve Kelley, featured on CNN's "The Hunt," was on the run since November 2004 
 
 Kelley was wanted for kidnapping her daughter and unlawful flight 
 
 Kelley is in the custody of authorities after turning herself in on Monday 
 
 The whereabouts of her now 18-year-old daughter are still unknown 
 
 A woman who allegedly took her daughter in violation of a court ruling and then went on the run for a decade has turned herself in, according to U.S. marshals in New Hampshire. 
 
 The whereabouts of the woman's now-18-year-old daughter remains unknown, authorities say. 
 
 Featured on CNN's "The Hunt" in August, Genevieve Kelley was wanted by law enforcement since November 2004, accused of noncustodial kidnapping and unlawful flight to avoid persecution. 
 
 Kelley, 50, along with her husband, Scott Kelley, 49, fled New Hampshire with her daughter, Mary Nunes, when the child was 8. At the time, the child's father, Mark Nunes, had full custody rights because of allegations of mistreatment, according to the Marshals Service. 
 
 Marshals were involved in efforts spanning the United States, Canada and Central and South America to locate Mary Nunes and Genevieve and Scott Kelley. 
 
 Genevieve Kelley was featured as the U.S. Marshals Service "Fugitive of the Week" in New Hampshire, coinciding with the nationally televised story of Mary Nunes and her kidnappers aired on "The Hunt," which is hosted by John Walsh. 
 
 After Genevieve Kelley surrendered Monday, U.S. Marshal David Cargill Jr., "I am happy that (she) is in custody and will face justice for these charges, but we will all be the happiest, when we know Mary Nunes is safe." 
 
 Scott Kelley is considered a fugitive and is being sought, the Marshals Service said in a news release. 
 
 Cargill credited the media and investigators for providing the "push needed to get Genevieve Kelley to surrender." 
 
 In March, Genevieve Kelley informed the New Hampshire prosecutor through her attorney that she wanted to negotiate her surrender. 
 
 Kelley is in the custody of the Coos County Sheriff's Office and has made an initial court appearance. 
 
 Breaks in other 'Hunt' cases 
 
 Kelley's arrest came the same day authorities in Texas announced that in an unrelated case, remains found in September were confirmed to be those of another fugitive, Kevin Patrick Stoeser , also featured on CNN's "The Hunt." 
 
 Stoeser, a U.S. soldier who was dishonorably discharged, pleaded guilty in 2003 to child sexual assault and child pornography charges and was sentenced to 13 years behind bars. 
 
 Authorities said Monday it's unclear when or how he died. No other remains were found, they said. 
 
 Remains of another suspect featured on the "The Hunt" were also found earlier this year, and another suspect who was profiled on the show was killed in a gun battle with authorities. 
 
 In August, the remains of Shane Miller were found in California. Miller was the prime suspect in the deaths of his wife and two young daughters. ||||| CONCORD, N.H. - Mark Nunes fondly remembers the last days he spent with his daughter Mary. 
 
 Seven years old at the time, Mary had traveled from New Hampshire to spend a week with Mark, his new wife and their two children in northern Virginia. It was August 2003, and they camped and went to the zoo and a water park. 
 
 Mark, 46, a pediatrician, was about to start a new job and buy a house, partly in hopes that Mary, who lived with his ex-wife, could begin spending more time with his family. 
 
 "I remember Mary picking out her room," he recalls. "It was very sweet." 
 
 But the sweetness was not to last. Their next scheduled visit, two months later, was abruptly canceled, and a year after that, Mary simply vanished. 
 
 Her disappearance with her mother and stepfather was the climax of a long, acrimonious tug of war over the child. The pair, Genevieve Kelley, 45, a family practice physician, and Scott Kelley, 44, a special-education teacher, are wanted by the U.S. Marshals Service on federal warrants for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. 
 
 Bitter divorces in which children become pawns are not rare, and they often include a steady stream of complaints about parental conduct ranging from frivolous to felonious. But after serving as Mary's court-appointed advocate while Genevieve and Mark battled in court during this one, guardian ad litem Abbie Teachout leaves no doubt where she stands. 
 
 "She (Genevieve) appeared to be really, almost obsessed in her concern over Mary and that Mark had done something" to harm the child, said Teachout, who, like police investigators, found no evidence to support the mother's complaints. "Out of all the families I've worked with, this was a case where parent alienation was 100 percent evident - that Genevieve was doing everything she could to alienate this child from her father, from the beginning." 
 
 Genevieve Kelley's family says concern for her child motivated her actions. 
 
 Mary is now 13. A forensic artist's image of how she might look today is on the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's Web site. 
 
 Looking at it brings a sad realization to her father: "That my daughter's a teenager right now..." 
 
 In his mind, she's forever stuck at 7. 
 
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 The couple met and married in the Air Force: Genevieve San Martin was a flight surgeon. Mark Nunes was specializing in genetics. They planned to have children and settle down. Mary was born in 1996. 
 
 But arguments over money and military-imposed separations eventually led Genevieve to move back to Whitefield, N.H., near her parents, and file for divorce. She got a restraining order against Mark, saying she was afraid of him. He said the worst thing he ever did was slam a door once during an argument. 
 
 "I very naively went into the entire process trying to save my marriage," he said. 
 
 The divorce was granted in 1998 on grounds of irreconcilable differences. Genevieve had primary custody of Mary; Mark traveled from Biloxi, Miss., for monthly, long weekend-type visits. The two eventually married others, but when it came to Mary's care, the arguments never ended. 
 
 Genevieve complained to Teachout that Mary was starved during Mark's visits; he said that was impossible. She said Mary, who was born prematurely, had developmental delays; he disagreed. 
 
 Teachout recalls one visit she made to Genevieve's house: 
 
 "Mary was crawling and on her way to walking ... the whole living room was covered in blankets and pillows and every time this baby would go to move, someone would be there hanging onto her. And I had concerns at that point that this baby wasn't going to be able to develop appropriately if you didn't let her go." 
 
 As Mary grew, Genevieve and Mark communicated through a notebook Mary brought with her on flights to Mississippi. If Mark wanted to call Mary, he had to reach her at assigned times - and the calls weren't always answered or returned. 
 
 In October 2003, as Mark was getting ready to fly up to see his daughter, the visit was canceled. Based on what Genevieve said were Mary's words and actions, she told police that Mark had sexually abused the child. 
 
 He said he had wondered "when the sexual abuse card was going to be played. ... I was supposed to disappear." 
 
 He was never charged and was cleared a year later by police and state investigators who felt he had been unfairly accused. 
 
 The state Division of Children, Youth and Families interviewed Mary. "There wasn't information that gave us reason to believe that this child had been harmed by her father or anyone else, for that matter," said Lorraine Bartlett, the division's child protection administrator. The agency provided information about the case to The Associated Press only after getting permission from Mark. 
 
 The child underwent a court-approved evaluation at a clinic in Portland, Maine. The family moved in 2004 to Colorado, where Mary was evaluated by two doctors. 
 
 At one point, Genevieve gave authorities homemade videotapes of Mary to support her case. (Family members quoted Scott as saying a counselor treating Mary suggested they make the tapes.) 
 
 "It was an extraordinarily disturbing tape," Mark said, noting his daughter sometimes screamed and hid from the camera. Child welfare workers, police and prosecutors said the tape showed leading conduct on Genevieve's part. 
 
 "Clearly Mom was interfering with and providing information to the child and how she was questioning her, leading her to certain statements, literally making statements, This is what happened, yes? Daddy did this, right?' ... We would never be able to go forward with any of this," Bartlett said. 
 
 The clinic evaluating Mary also "raised some concern" about the mother's role, Bartlett said. "Is Mom contributing to some of the anxiety and some of these other things being said by this child?" 
 
 Wayne Rioux, who was Whitefield police chief at the time, said the Kelleys were trying to indoctrinate Mary "into not only hating her father but trying to make her say things against her father." 
 
 In the fall of 2004, a judge ordered Mary brought to Bartlett's agency in advance of a scheduled evaluation at the clinic. But mother and child never showed up. By the end of November, authorities discovered that Mary, now 8, hadn't attended school in Colorado for at least a month, and the family's mail was undeliverable. 
 
 That December, Mark was given legal custody of Mary. In 2005, the Kelleys were indicted on a charge of interference with custody. 
 
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 Beth Kelley, Scott's sister, said Genevieve was doing everything she could to help her daughter and wasn't sure whom she could trust anymore. 
 
 "I think they absolutely realized that when they left that they would be probably not coming back at all," Beth said. "I'm sure that it was the worst decision that the two of them ever had to make in their entire lives. But they had to do it for Mary's sake if there was even a chance that she was going to have to see her father again." 
 
 Beth had befriended Genevieve at a health care practice where they worked and introduced her to Scott. The two, both divorced, hit it off and got married at a drive-by chapel in Las Vegas, Beth said. 
 
 Sometimes her brother's family missed family get-togethers, saying Mary was having behavioral problems, Beth said. 
 
 A counselor in Concord treated Mary for post-traumatic stress disorder, Beth said. She quoted her brother as saying Mary seemed to be doing much better after she saw the doctors in Colorado. 
 
 "Mother was really like a ship without a rudder trying to find the best way she could to support her child," one of the Colorado psychiatrists, Dr. Ron Minson, testified at a hearing in October 2004. He agreed that something had traumatized Mary, but declined to comment about whether she had been abused. 
 
 Family members have not heard from Scott, Genevieve and Mary, Beth said. "We prefer to picture them sitting on a beach holding a drink with an umbrella in it," she said. 
 
 Genevieve's parents, George and Regina San Martin, also have not heard from their daughter since she disappeared, said John McKinnon, their attorney. "There's nothing. There's been not one communication, there's been not one postcard, one letter," he said. 
 
 A police search of their home in 2005 turned up years of stored utility bills, yet no phone records; the San Martins said they shred the phone bills. 
 
 Several thousand dollars' worth of travelers cheques were found in Mrs. San Martin's purse, and she said she used them to pay bills, according to former Whitefield Police Sgt. Shawn White, who conducted the search. The San Martins' computer showed they were researching real estate in Texas, and White said Mrs. San Martin had asked him if her daughter was stopped in Texas whether she would be brought back to New Hampshire. He advised that she would. 
 
 The couple declined to be interviewed for this story. 
 
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 Marshals investigating the Kelleys' 2004 disappearance have received help from the U.S. State Department, Interpol and other agencies. 
 
 The family could be living in the United States. But the marshals say they initially went to Central America and were in at least two countries there. Genevieve, who speaks fluent Spanish and had lived in Spain, used to travel to the region with Mark. 
 
 "She could blend right in," said Deputy U.S. Marshal William Marr. 
 
 The marshals put out an alert to traveling emergency medical service workers about a condition Mary has - arteriovenous malformation - marked by seizures, headaches, bleeding and other symptoms. They've followed Internet leads, even reaching out to a Web site that looks for stolen horses; two horses Mary used to ride vanished, too. 
 
 Mark Nunes would like to know where his teenage daughter is. He keeps pictures of the younger Mary on his mantel. His 8-year-old son, now older than Mary was when Mark last saw her, sometimes asks about her. Mark also has a 5-year-old daughter and once hoped the children would make a difference in each other's lives. 
 
 "That's gone. That's shattered," he said. 
 
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 On the Net: 
 
 www.usmarshals.gov/district/nh/fugitives/index.html 
 
 www.amw.com/missing-children/brief.cfm?id 
 
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 www.missingkids.com/ ||||| Atlanta (CNN) Federal marshals have arrested Scott Kelley, a fugitive accused of kidnapping who was featured on CNN's "The Hunt." 
 
 Kelley, 50, was taken into custody at the Atlanta airport Wednesday after arriving on a flight from Costa Rica, Deputy U.S. Marshal Jamie Berry said. 
 
 "It was time to come home," Kelley told People magazine about his decision to return to the United States. 
 
 The couple is accused of leaving New Hampshire, kidnapping Genevieve Kelley's daughter, Mary Nunes, and beginning a life on the lam when she was 8 years old. At the time, the child's father, Mark Nunes, had full custody rights. 
 
 The search for the three spanned the United States, Canada and Central and South America. 
 
 It ended on Monday, when Scott Kelley and Mary Nunes entered the U.S. Consulate in Costa Rica and requested passports so they could return to the United States. 
 
 The consulate notified U.S. Marshals, Berry said, and when Kelley and Nunes flew to Atlanta on Wednesday investigators were waiting for them. 
 
 Mary Nunes, now 19, was interviewed by investigators at the Atlanta airport to ensure her health and safety and then allowed to continue to her final destination, Berry said. Previously, authorities had said her whereabouts were unknown 
 
 In a statement released through a private investigator he's hired in the case, her father said that he was thrilled to learn Mary is safe. 
 
 Mary Nunes was 8 years old when a court gave her father full custody 
 
 "We love Mary and are overjoyed that she is alive and back in the US. Our hearts and home are open to her, and we will do everything we can to insure she remains safe and healthy," Mark Nunes said in a statement. "We remain concerned about her emotional and physical well-being. We look forward to the day our family is finally reunited." 
 
 Kelley's attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 
 
 Allegations of abuse 
 
 Before allegedly fleeing the country, Genevieve Kelley had accused her ex-husband of abusing their child. Investigators found no basis for the accusations and no charges were filed. 
 
 On a Facebook page defending her , supporters of the mother say she did what any parent would do under the same circumstances. Photos on the page show her standing with friends holding signs that say, "Justice for Gen! Children need protection." 
 
 Wayne Rioux, who was then the police chief of Whitefield, New Hampshire, told "The Hunt" that a video Genevieve and Scott Kelley made, intended to prove their abuse allegations, aroused his suspicions. 
 
 Rioux watched the tape for "any evidence of wrongdoing by Mark Nunes." 
 
 "But throughout the tape all I saw was this bizarre, strange conduct by the mother," Rioux said, "who was absolutely brainwashing the daughter and trying to get the daughter to say things against her daddy." 
 
 Attorney Alan Rosenfeld has argued that Genevieve Kelley had no other option than running away with her daughter, after a court-appointed guardian and social service agencies had said they didn't believe the abuse allegations. 
 
 "Simply put, there was no lawful alternative to provide safety for this child," he said earlier this year, according to WMUR. 
 
 Breaks in other 'Hunt' cases 
 
 The 53-year-old American pastor is accused of dozens of sexual assaults in Minnesota. 
 
 Last year, the same day Genevieve Kelley was arrested, authorities in Texas announced that in an unrelated case, remains found were confirmed to be those of another fugitive featured on the program, Kevin Patrick Stoeser. 
 
 Stoeser, a U.S. soldier who was dishonorably discharged, pleaded guilty in 2003 to child sexual assault and child pornography charges and was sentenced to 13 years behind bars.
– In the midst of a bitter custody battle, Genevieve Kelley took her 8-year-old daughter and vanished in November 2004. Over the past decade, the US Marshals Service followed up on tips that had them looking for the New Hampshire woman—along with new husband Scott Kelley, daughter Mary Nunes, and two horses that also disappeared—in the US, Canada, and Central and South America (Kelley, a one-time flight surgeon with the Air Force, is fluent in Spanish). Then, in March of this year, Kelley made contact through her lawyer, who told the New Hampshire prosecutor that Kelley was prepared to face her charge of custodial interference. The 50-year-old turned herself in Monday. Says her lawyer per the AP, "She wants to be vindicated. She wants a trial." Mary turned 18 in February, meaning she is no longer under the purview of family court. In 2009, the AP categorized the girl's vanishing as "the climax of a long, acrimonious tug of war." Kelley and Mark Nunes divorced in 1998, with Kelley retaining primary custody of the girl. The ensuing years were not exactly smooth, and in late 2003, Kelley told police that Nunes had sexually abused Mary; those allegations were determined to be unfounded. Roughly a month after the trio disappeared, Mark Nunes was awarded legal custody of the child. Mary's current location remains unknown, per CNN, though Kelley says she is safe. The Find Mary Nunes website has a phone number in the right rail of every page, along with this message: "Mary, here is a number so you can talk to your daddy. It is on 24 hours a day. We love you and miss you."