Woman notices daughter who went missing for months on local television being interviewed

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For two months, Alice Crawford’s family searched for her, wondering where she went. Then during a local television interview, her mother saw her being interviewed in Denver.

Marc Sallinger with 9News in Denver said he barely spoke to Crawford but what she said stuck with him.

"This is death weather. If you’re not prepared for this, you’re going to die," Alice Crawford told him on Oct. 29. "I sleep behind the dumpster because you stay out of the wind and some of the snow doesn’t fall on you."

Not only did the words leave an impression on Sallinger, but Crawford’s mother caught wind of the interview and was horrified to see her daughter in need and alone.

"It was death weather. It was cold. She was cold. It broke my heart," Jill Rosenow said. "I cried. Seeing my daughter on the streets, homeless … a mother is only as happy as her saddest child. As you can imagine, I’m a train wreck. I cry. I think about her. I don’t sleep at night. I just want her back. She needs to be safe. She needs to be off the streets."

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So, she gathered as many family members as they could, and everyone traveled from North Dakota to bring Alice Crawford home.

Crawford was battling drug addiction when she went missing in North Dakota and had been to rehab before she disappeared.

"It’s a mother’s worst nightmare," Rosenow said. "She’s just my sweet little Alice."

When the family arrived in Denver, they contacted Sallinger, asking where he spoke with Crawford and if there were any clues about where she might be.

Days of searching led them to Union Station.

"It was really by accident, well, I had to use the restroom," said Theresa Brown, who Alice's aunt from Northern California. "We walked into the restroom thinking it was empty and the last stall was occupied. As I was getting ready to go into my stall, we heard her voice."

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Finally with Alice Crawford in tow, the family was reunited.

For now, Crawford is recovering from spending months living on the streets.