Teen traveling with convicted Indiana murderer found safe

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A 14-year-old Michigan girl missing since March 1 was recovered safely Monday, and her companion, a convicted Indiana murderer, was arrested without incident, the California Highway Patrol said.\nA CHP trooper stopped a suspicious looking vehicle near Standish, Calif., 70 miles northwest of Reno, Nev., said CHP Commissioner D.O. "Spike" Helmick.\nLindsey Diane Ryan was riding in the truck with Terry Drake, 56, of Middlebury, Ind., police said. Drake had met the Ryan family in church, and he and the girl later corresponded by e-mail.\nDrake had been considered to be heavily armed, including having weapons stolen from Ryan's home.\nAn officer spotted Drake's truck in a parking lot. The white pickup had been "roughly and rudely painted black," Helmick said, but the license plate number matched up. Drake was arrested without incident.\nThe girl "appears to be in good condition," Helmick said.\nCalls to the Ryan family home in Jones, Mich. -- more than 2,000 miles from where the girl was found -- were met with a busy signal.\nRyan left her home near Jones, a small town near the Indiana state line, early on March 1 to meet Drake a short distance away, police had said. The two left the area together.\nMichigan, Indiana and California all issued Amber Alert warnings seeking tips on Lindsey's whereabouts.\nDrake spent 16 years in prison for killing a woman from the Evansville, Ind., area in 1977.\nDrake and his wife, Darlene, were living about 20 miles from the Ryans when they met the family at First Assembly Church in Goshen, Ind.\nTerry Drake told the Ryans he was a born-again Christian with a notorious past and that his faith had helped him leave it behind.\nHe and the girl had been corresponding by e-mail for months, authorities said.\nThe pair had been spotted three times in remote, mountainous regions of the Sierra Nevada range between California and Nevada, most recently nearly a week ago near Susanville, not far from where she was found. That sighting came after the pair was featured on the "America's Most Wanted" television program.