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CORRECTS FROM LEINA TO LIANA- This booking photo released by the Harris County (Texas) Sheriff’s Office shows Elaine Yates. Two sisters who disappeared from Rhode Island with their mother Elaine Yates in 1985 have been located in the Houston area, and their mother was charged with snatching them, police announced Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017. Yates, who had been living in Houston under the name Liana Waldberg, was arrested on Monday, Jan. 16, without incident and faces arraignment Wednesday in Rhode Island on a fugitive charge. (Harris County Sheriff’s Office via AP)

Mom, kids fled at time when domestic violence wasn’t a crime

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT - Associated Press

Russell Yates, whose wife Elaine and two daughters went missing in 1985, speaks in the doorway of his home Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, in Warwick, R.I. Elaine Yates, living under the name Leina Waldberg in Houston, was arrested Monday, charged with taking the children. She faces arraignment on a fugitive charge Wednesday in Rhode Island. (Glenn Osmundson/Providence Journal via AP)

Police: Daughters taken 3 decades ago found, mom arrested

By MICHELLE R. SMITH - Associated Press