Boy abducted in '94 found: Richard Landers, 5, taken by his grandparents in 1994 now living in Minnesota

A little boy who was abducted from his Indiana home by his grandparents has been found 18 years later living under a different name 680 miles away in Minnesota. 

Richard Landers Jr was 5 when his grandparents took him and fled their trailer in Wolcottville, Indiana, taking with them only a few suitcases of clothes. 

Detectives finally tracked Landers down in this fall, when they found him living in Long Prairie, Minnesota. Now, age 24, he admitted to police that he knew his real name all along - though he had been living under a different alias almost his entire life.

He is now married and expecting a child of his own.

'He appears to be well adjusted, there was no indication or signs of any kind of abuse over the years,' Indiana State Police Sgt Ron Galaviz told reporters . 'It just appears on its face that his grandparents raised him as their own child over these last 18 years.'

Detectives say Landers' pateal grandparents, Richard and Ruth Landers, were raising the boy in Indiana - but his mother was working to regain custody of him in 1994.

The abduction occurred just days before Landers' mother was due to take him for a one week visitation.

Richard Landers Jr disappeared without a trace. Detectives tracked down family members as far away as Washington State and monitored a cabin in Michigan that the grandparents owned, but there was no sign of little Richard.

The break in the case came in September 2012, when the boy's step-father came to Indiana State Police with the missing child's social security card.

Galaviz said he does not know how why the step-father brought the social security card to the attention of police after 18 years.

Indiana State Police detectives soon leaed that the social security number was being used by someone in Minnesota with the same birthday as little Richard but a different name.

Long way from home: Landers was found 680 miles from the trailer where he disappeared

When local Minnesota police tracked down the man using the social security number, he admitted that he was Landers.

His grandparents, who had abducted him, were living in another small Minnesota town eight miles north of Long Prairie. 

Despite tearing Landers away from his biological parents 18 years ago, the grandparents do no face charges in Indiana, Galaviz said.

Prosecutors dropped the charges against them years ago when the boy could not be found.

The statute of limitations has since expired so they cannot be charged again.

However, authorities in Minnesota, and the US Attoey are still investigating the case.

Galaviz said it is unknown what Landers' grandparents was told about his abduction from Indiana.

Police did not know whether he was planning a reunion with his biological mother.

'To get this dropped in his lap at age 24,after all these years, God knows that it's something he'll have work out for himself,' Galaviz said.