Viral Photo of Starving Homeless Man Ends Up Solving a 7-Year Mystery

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From the archives: This story was last updated in June 2019.

Johnny Servantez simply thought he was highlighting the plight of a homeless man by posting his photo online. The man, Johnny Rhodes, was panhandling outside a flea market in Indianapolis. But as it turned out, Rhodes had been missing to his family for seven years, and Servantez’s photo helped reunite a devastated family.