According to the Associated Press, Wilfong and her mother, Diane Dobbs, hid Ricky from the rest of the world by keeping him in a secret 5X12 room at Dobbs' house, which investigators missed when combing through the home for evidence of the boy in 2007, when Ricky disappeared.

Wilfong, who had lost custody of her son to Ricky's father, Mike Chekevdia, had apparently accused Chekevdia of sexually abusing her son before she disappeared with him (and after she had lost custody), but according to the St. Louis Post Dispatch, those claims were investigated by DCF and found to be false.

Ricky, meanwhile, has since been returned to his overjoyed father, and Wilfong is being charged with felony child abduction. Illinois State Police Master Sgt. Stan Diggs claims that Ricky is "in good spirits" and that "We let him out of the (patrol) car and he ran around like he'd never seen outdoors. It was actually very sad. He was very happy to be outside. He said he never goes outside." It's a sad story all around, really: once again, Ricky is going to lose somebody, and there aren't enough secret rooms in the world to hide the fact that what his mother did was very, very wrong.

Missing Boy, 6, Runaway Mother Found Hidden In Home In Illinois [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
Missing Boy Found Alive, Hidden At Grandma's House [AP]

Joseph took Gavin to Hungary, and Avril desperately searched for years to find her lost son. "Over the years we tried everything but couldn't find out what had happened to him," she tells the Daily Mail, and according to the Times of London, "Despite appeals via the Hungarian Embassy in London and the British Embassy in Budapest, and an appeal to Margaret Thatcher, then the Prime Minister, Mrs Grube heard nothing more of her son."

Avril's sister, Beryl Watson, decided to take matters in to her own hands and searched for Gavin on Google. The results brought her to Gavin's Facebook profile. She sent Gavin a message, hoping she had the right man, and weeks later, Gavin responded and agreed to meet up with his mother. "I was so overcome and just said ‘my beautiful son' over and over again," Grube says, "He was very quiet and overwhelmed. We just hugged each other. It is the happiest day of my life, there are almost no words to describe it."

Facebook Reunites Mother With Long Lost Son [TimesOnline]
Joy of mother who discovered her 'kidnapped' son after 27 years... by Googling his name and finding his Facebook page [DailyMail]

Bob was brought to the local humane society in Minnesota two years after his disappearance and workers found a microchip embedded under his skin with the Meide's contact information. When they moved they didn't update their contact information. Workers could not find their new phone number, but eventually thought to search for their names on Facebook. "We love everything about his personality. We love the size, we love big, fat cats," said Nicole Meide, who first got Bob with her husband after they returned from their honeymoon. She said Bob's return "brought tears of joy." [CBS News]

Cleopatra directly ordered Arsinöe's death in order to protect her claim to the Egyptian throne. Scientists are now using her remains to piece together an image of what she may have looked like—and what the famous Queen of the Nile may have looked like, as well. "Evidence obtained by studying the dimensions of Arsinöe's skull shows she had some of the characteristics of white Europeans, ancient Egyptians and black Africans, indicating that Cleopatra was probably of mixed race, too," writes Daniel Foggo of the Times of London. [Times Of London]

• According to The National Domestic Violence Hotline, you may be in an emotionally abusive relationship if your partner (in this case, the show), tries to isolate you from family or friends. When you watch Lost, the world divides into two groups; those who also watch and those who don't. Even my own mother will be denied and ignored if she dares to call while I'm watching tonight. And heaven forbid if she asks, "What's the show about?"

• The wellness site Third Age asks, Do you feel as if your partner keeps you dangling on a string? Does he or she seem to have all of the emotional control? Does this make your own life feel out of control? Yes, yes and yes! Lost leaves you dangling, controls emotions, makes you fall in love with foxy foxes, no-goodniks and heart-melters, muddles their backstories, confuses whether they are good or bad and then snatches them away from you just when you thought you could count on seeing them shirtless once a week.
• Dr. Phil himself says a relationship might be abusive if your partner is making you afraid by using looks, gestures or actions. The black smoke is terrifying! So is Henry Gale/Ben Linus! So is the fact that people manifest things from their past — Kate's horse, Jack's dad? Another mark of the emotional abuser is if the person makes light of the abuse and doesn't take your concerns about it seriously. You think they listened when I begged, "Please don't kill Mr. Eko!"? No!
• You're being abused if your partner does not want you to work. Lost wants me to spend all day cross-referencing conspiracy theories, watching secret videos that may or may not hold insight and reading Hurley's blog. I just know it.
• Lastly, emotionally abusive partners are known for punishing by withholding affection. It's been eight months! As Emily Nussbaum says in New York Magazine today: "Basically, we're kind of like John Locke: Befriend us under false pretenses, steal our kidney, smash us through a window, toss us in a mass grave! You're still our daddy, and we'll follow you anywhere."

  What is Domestic Violence? [The National Domestic Violence Hotline]
  Are You in an Emotionally Abusive Relationship? [ThirdAge]
  Are You in an Emotionally Abusive Relationship? [Dr. Phil]
  Six Secret Lost Videos [10 Zen Monkeys]
  Emily Nussbaum on 'Lost': We Are John Locke [New York Magazine]

The adult site that Emily ran before her death has since been removed, but in its place, friends have posted information about the man wanted for questioning in relation to the case. (Israel Mireles — whose whereabouts are currently unknown — was the last person to be seen with Emily, and when cops searched his motel room, they found it bloody and in disarray.)

But the site also notes that Emily was never really the "porn star" the media has made her out to be. She merely modeled nude on the internet, in solo setups. Also, she only began doing it about two months ago. Would anyone ever refer to women in Playboy as "porn stars"? Probably not. And surely, her photos were a lot dirtier than the watered down men's mag, but someone who has been showing their pussy on the internet for eight weeks isn't really a star.

But still, even if she'd made gonzo films of spit roasts, or shoving baseball bats up her ass, it doesn't change the fact that at the end of the day, porno is just a job—unconventional, sure, but still, just a job. Since when is murder an occupational hazard for holding down a legal job?

Miss. Student's Body Found; Ex Charged [CBS News]
Police: Body Found Appears To Be Missing Porn Star [CNN]
Earlier: Missing Teenager Is Also Internet Porn Phenomenon
Related: Missing Woman Coverage A Black And White Issue? [ABC News]