Jacob Caldwell, who vanished after witnessing his dad’s murder has been found safe a year later, after a billboard campaign, police said

An Ohio teen who vanished after watching his father get murdered in front of him has been found safe a year later. Jacob Caldwell, was 14 when he  vanished after watching his father get murdered in front of him. He has been found safe after a year-long billboard campaign.

Jacob Caldwell, 15, was with his younger siblings and dad Robert Caldwell, 35, in August of 2017 when a gunman opened fire, hitting and killing his father.
The shooter was later revealed to be Sterling Roberts, the new boyfriend of Robert Caldwell’s ex-wife Tawnney.
Tawnney, 33, who is Jacob’s mother,  is currently in jail facing murder charges along with Roberts.

Missing teen Jacob Caldwell [L-R], was found safe on Monday night in south Dayton. Missing for a year, he was hiding ut in the family’s basement

Authorities had also mounted search efforts across state borders and the FBI even offered a $15,000 reward.
In a news conference Tuesday morning, Chief Michael Brown, of the Sugarcreek Police Department, said a ‘very credible’ tip came in to the department from the billboards and at 11.30pm Monday night, his office served a search warrant at a home in Miami Township in Montgomery County.
Police found Jacob living in the basement, Fox 45 reported.
He did not appear to have been locked in and was free to move around the house, where there were four adults living, officers said. But Brown added that Jacob did not go outside or socialize with any other children.
Brown said the teen seemed ‘traumatized’ but physically healthy and is currently being held at Greene County Juvenile Detention Center.
It’s not yet clear what charges the adults living with Jacob will face.
‘It’s been on our mind every day,’ he said of the missing persons case, adding that investigators always had a ‘strong feeling that it was a family member involved in him being missing.’
Brown said Jacob was not abducted, but was encouraged by family members to run away.

‘So I think that seems to be pretty obvious with that.’
Robert and Tawnney reportedly, started their divorce in 2011, shortly after he discovered she was allegedly running an escort website. The victim’s brother who emphasised that th escort website was the final straw recalls that the pair were deeply in love until that trust shattering discovery.
Both had moved on since the divorce, and Robert had married his new wife Candice Caldwell with whom he shared two young sons. According to Candice, after she tied the knot with her new husband, Tawnney changed and became more aggressive.