Missing UCLA student Nancy Salas' kidnapping a farce:

Missing UCLA student Nancy Salas' kidnapping a farce:
A woman whose disappearance led to a massive Glendale search made up a story that she had been abducted knife and fled due to stress, police said Thursday. Nancy Salas was reunited with her family in Glendale late Thursday night after missing nearly two days. She was last seen around 6:30 pm Wednesday, after her family went on her usual run. Salas turned into a carpet shop in Merced in central California Thursday Glendale police Sgt. Tom Lorenz said. The young woman was in tears and asked an employee to call 911, showroom coordinator Melanie Mittelsteadt told the Merced Sun-Star. Salas told police they were abducted by a man at knife during its run and was taken to Merced by bus and train, "said Lorenz. Salas retracted her story shortly before she was set to be reunited with her family in Glendale late Thursday, said Lorenz, admit it and that she fled because she felt intense pressure from her family and friends. Police discovered as the search progressed that Salas had been misled by her parents telling them that she was attending the University of California, Los Angeles. The school reported that the fourth-year sociology major and student was last enrolled at UCLA in the fall of 2008. "She was adored by her family, neighbors, friends, church, as a successful student at UCLA," said Lorenz. "She did not know how to treat them and fled." Nancy Salas spoke with her family, friends and all those who helped search for her parents in her 'small apartment late Thursday. Cars double-parked in the street and young men busy around the door, brought her story. Her 19-year-old brother, Henry Salas Jr., parried reporters, begging them to his family, to respect privacy. After about 20 minutes, the young people presented, telling each other not to talk to the media. Her mother and father had planned a graduation ceremony for their daughter. Both parents, on learning that their daughter was OK Earlier Thursday, hugged family and friends and looked forward to see her. "Everything is beautiful at last," the woman's father Henry Salas said in Spanish. "It's amazing the help that we had - roommates and friends, university friends, friends of the church." Her mother, Joanna Salas, smiled broadly as the crowd turns on her toys. "I've come back alive," she said. Salas' disappearance led to a dramatic but unsuccessful search by police and volunteers were accompanied by rangers, bloodhounds and a helicopter. Detectives checked her cell phone and computer records for clues. Friends and family members passed out flyers with her picture and her friends on Facebook mobilized to exchange information and organizing searches.