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Larry Schnackenberg vanished three weeks ago, leaving behind few clues and mounds of questions.
All police knew was that the retired Hallmark Cards employee was at a computer store one minute and then gone. His Ford Explorer, with wallet and cell phone inside, were left at Shawnee Mission Park.
It was nine days before his daughter was to marry, and Schnackenberg had already begun writing a toast.
For weeks, there was no sign of him. Not until Wednesday at 20 minutes past 2.
A Johnson County parks safety aide was on routine patrol — biking a trail looking for anyone who might need water or directions — when he spotted the man walking toward him on the paved pathway near 6100 Barker Road in Shawnee.
Schnackenberg, 58, was shirtless, his body covered in insect bites. He had lost a lot of weight and his face was tilted toward the ground.
But parks employee Rick Reynolds still recognized the man whose son played ball with his son years ago.
"Larry?" Reynolds said, at first not getting much recognition. "It's Rick Reynolds."
Schnackenberg knew him. And Reynolds knew he had found a man the community and people across the nation had been searching for since July 8.
"It's a good day," Reynolds said as he led Schnackenberg off the trail.
For the rest of Wednesday, Schnackenberg was at Shawnee Mission Medical Center, being treated for exposure. His family joined him there, hospital spokeswoman Shannon Cates said.
His sons said Thursday that they still have most of the questions of everyone else about his puzzling disappearance for the past three weeks.
While they spend time by their father's hospital bed, they do not press closely, they said.
"It pains him so much," David Schnackenberg said. "He breaks down every time he tries to talk about it.
The family accepts that the man being treated for exposure, dehydration, poison ivy and insect bites is not ready to share details, even with them, David said.
"Although questions remain," he said, "we are simply enjoying the fact that he's still in our lives." He and his brother Michael met with reporters Thursday afternoon, but did not fill in many blanks.
Their sister, Kristen, who postponed her July 17 wedding ceremony, is flying in, they said.
Nor have police learned much from Larry Schnackenberg, but it was enough for investigators to say little more remains for them to do. For now, the police are closing the case.
"Just the fact that he disappeared and didn't want to be found is not a crime," said Officer Dan Friesen, Lenexa Police spokesman. "There is nothing to indicate any crime has been committed."
Schnackenberg disappeared July 8.
