CORRECTION: A previous version of this article misstated where the two girls were found.

MANITOWOC – Two Valders girls missing since August were found in Mississippi and soon will return safely home.

On Nov. 2, the Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Office helped the U.S. Marshall’s Office and Federal Bureau of Investigation with finding Sara Copple, 15, of Valders, as well as Zachary Gauthier and his daughter Delilah, 7, of Whitelaw. Both girls were taken into protective custody and arrangements are being made for their return to Wisconsin from Mississippi, according to the sheriff’s office. Delilah was considered missing and Copple a runaway, according to authorities.

Zachary Gauthier, 24, was apprehended in Alabama and will be extradited to Wisconsin through the state Department of Corrections.

The sheriff’s office and FBI have been working to find the three since they were last seen in early August in northern Wisconsin.

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