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When Larry Ely Murillo-Moncada’s parents last saw him on Nov. 28, 2009, he was running out of their house in Council Bluffs, Iowa, barefoot into the middle of a snowstorm.

A missing persons report was filed. Calls were made to family friends. Fliers popped up around the city located just east of Omaha. But the efforts yielded little information on the whereabouts of the 25-year-old, the Daily Nonpareil reported at the time. He appeared to have vanished.

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Now, almost a decade later, Murillo-Moncada’s family finally has some answers to their questions that have long surrounded the young man’s vexing disappearance. Where did he go? What happened to him?

The Council Bluffs Police Department announced Monday that for all those years Murillo-Moncada had been less than a mile away from his home at a supermarket where he worked — trapped behind the store’s coolers.

“You don’t hear about these types of cases, people found in walls, especially in this area,” Sgt. Brandon Danielson told KETV in Omaha, Nebraska. “We have missing persons all the time, but this is just unique.”