After three months on the flight over six states and three countries, a woman from Ohio and her two missing daughters were conquered thousands of kilometers in Iceland.
Police registers obtained by DailyMail.com revealed Samantha Hogan, 34, and her young daughters, eight and nine years old, went on a bizarre journey through the country and parts of Europe that flood around 11,000 miles after they disappeared in October.
Despite several Run-ins with law enforcement in the US, it was only until Hogan Early for her missing children, the country fled and made a dangerous journey to Reykjavik that she was finally held.
Samantha's mother, Angela, reported the trio that was missing at the Canton Police Department on 25 October and claimed that her daughter is a paranoid schizophrenic and had stopped taking her medication.
Angela told the police that she saw her daughter for the last time on 3 September in Columbus, Ohio, but that she returned to Canton.
She was worried about their well -being after she heard that the last time someone saw Samantha in Canton on October 10. Records show that Hogan rented a car on October 8 – to start its pursuit on the east coast.
However, the worried grandmother was contacted on October 21 by the police in Concord, New Hampshire, and claimed that the girls were in order and were in good health.
The situation took a grim turn when Angela received an alarming phone call from her daughter on 23 October, which led her to submit the report of the missing person.
Samantha Hogan, 34, and her young daughters, aged eight and nine years old, went on a bizarre journey through the country and parts of Europe after they had disappeared in October
“Samantha called Angela and made suicidal comments stating that she no longer wants to be here, the cartel is after her and something about spiritual warfare,” said the police report.
'Samantha's phone pinged for the last time in Syracuse, New York [October 23]But nobody was able to contact her. '
Angela even told the police when her daughter was paranoid, she would not harm her children – but warned agents that Samantha could be armed with a gun.
On October 29, Samantha was caught by the police in Vermont, trying to cross the border to Canada with her two daughters.
The police heard that Samantha bought passports the day before for her two children and herself – and then tried to cross the international border.
The Canada Customs Officers who stopped Samantha found a firearm, a magazine and a taser in her vehicle and transferred her to the American customs.
While in the American detention, the authorities heard that she was a missing person and decided to let a crisis officer talk to her after being upset that she was being held.
'[Samantha] seemed to be normal, although she was irritated that she was being held, “said the police report.
'When asked for her travel plans to Canada, [officers] It stated that she was not very logical and said she was trying to go to Calgary and then back to Ohio. '
After three months on the flight over six states, three countries and several run-ins with the law, they were found in Reykjavik, Iceland (photo)
Samantha Hogan and her daughters were missing on October 25 after the last time someone saw them in Canton, Ohio (photo) was October 10
Canton's police said they communicated with customs agents and the State Police in Vermont, who told them that a professional in mental health care would talk to Samantha and that they would follow how that was.
The Canton police said, however, that they never heard it again and Samantha and her children were released – even though the reporting of the missing persons was active at the time.
It is assumed that between November and December 2024 the mother traveled over several state lines from northeast to the Pacific Northwest.
In November, Hogan went to social media and said how she feared for her life, and how she believed she was 'stalked' after her information was stolen in a 'cyber attack'.
In a post on November 23, she said how she thought people put deadly chemicals in her and placed the food of her daughters to try to kill them.
On December 29, Angela reported that the trio was missing again after she last heard from Samantha on December 19 via a text message.
Angela told the police that she had contacted the father of the children, who confirmed that he had not heard from Samantha or the girls since 19 December.
She also protruded to Samantha's father, who told her that Samantha used her bank card in Oregon – only 2,890 miles from where she was last seen on the border with Vermont -Canada.
The Canton Police Department called in the help of the American Marshals service, when they discovered Samantha's car in Denver airport, Colorado, on January 1 – another 1,086 miles from Oregon.
From there, researchers learned that the three stepped into a flight and traveled to London, England, and then to Jersey, a small island in the English canal.
The missing daughters and their mother then traveled to a remote fishing village in Iceland, before they were finally established by the Icelandic police in a hotel in Reykjavik on 10 January.
“Icelandic officials kept them and their location a bit until we could get the right judicial orders to be able to take the children in custody,” Canton Police captain John Bosley told News5Cleveland.
The USMs said that the children in the care of the social services of Iceland were placed until a familiar family member could get them.
Samantha was placed in a hospital where she will stay until she is good enough to travel back to the US
'The cooperation of the efforts in this case cannot be overestimated. The ability to respond and repair these children abroad is an extremely difficult task, “said the American Marshal Pete Elliott.
“Our researchers have done an excellent job. We are lucky that we have such strong and devoted partners for law enforcement, and credit must be given to them to help these children. '
Canton City School District, where the two children were registered at school, could not confirm whether the children were taken out of school before the family was missing.
Dailymail.com has made various attempts to contact Samantha Hogan.
