(Surrey RCMP) 
 
 A woman who went missing from her Surrey, B.C., home more than 50 years ago has been found alive in Yukon. After The Leader ran a story earlier this month about Johnson’s disappearance – one of Surrey RCMP’s oldest missing person’s cases – Evans, now in her late 50s, got on her computer and started doing some research herself. "We received a phone call from a woman in the Yukon who called and claimed that she had seen the picture of the missing person in the free newspapers, and said the missing person we were looking for was actually her mother," he said. Lucy Johnson, now 77 years old, has been living in Yukon and has another family. According to the Surrey RCMP, Lucy was originally reported missing by her husband in 1965, but police learned later she hadn’t been seen since 1961. Her husband was considered a suspect at one point, but never charged.
– When Lucy Johnson was reported missing in Surrey, BC, in 1965—four years after she actually disappeared—police suspected her husband. They even dug up his yard, but no trace of the woman was ever found. That is, until Johnson's daughter, Linda Evans, who was seven or eight when her mom vanished, decided on a whim to place ads in northern BC newspapers last month asking for information on her long-lost mom, who had links to the north, the Surrey Leader reports. Not expecting to hear much news about the 52-year-old mystery, she was amazed to find an entirely new family instead. "The original daughter of Lucy Johnson, who went above and beyond to promote and try to generate tips all over BC, actually somehow connected with a stepsister, who she did not know she had at the time," a police rep explains to the CBC. It turns out Johnson, now 77 with another family—including three sons and a daughter—was alive and well in Yukon. "The police phoned me and said 'we found your mom' and I said 'no, I found my mom,'" says Evans, who hopes to visit her mom to get some answers. But mainly, "I just hope I can be part of her life," she says.