A missing Texas girl who is developmentally disabled was found safely in a trailer park near the U.S.-Mexico border on Wednesday, FoxNews.com reported.
Elizabeth Rex, 14, was kidnapped on Monday by Randy Johnson, a 51-year-old man who used to work with her father until he became too close with her.
According to the Houston Chronicle, Rex went outside to play and never returned.
"She appears unharmed," Montgomery County Sheriff's Office Lt. Brady Fitzgerald told Fox News. "She's been transferred to a local hospital for evaluation."
Johnson was arrested and faces kidnapping charges, Fitzgerald said. He reportedly called Rex's parents and taunted them after the abduction.
The girl's father, Patrick Rex, told KHOU-TV that Johnson moved in with them after being diagnosed with colon cancer.
"He calls us and says, 'Y'all will never see Lizzy again and things like that 'cuz where we're going you can't get there," Rex told KHOU. "Not even 10 minutes later, he calls back and goes, 'La-la-la-la.'"
The girl's mother, Jennifer Black, said her daughter has the mental capacity of a 5- or 6-year-old and has been home-schooled. She also said Johnson and Elizabeth, known as "Lizzy," began communicating "in code" before they asked him to leave their home.
"I mean, we were literally listening to every conversation and it was in code," Black told KHOU. "So once we decided what the codes were, it was like, 'You have to go, you can't be here.'"
