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Non-verbal autistic boy, 6, missing for three days in Kentucky walks out of the bushes to greet horseback searchers

Roman Heilman, six, scratched and unclothed after three days alone in freezing Kentucky woodland, was found clutching a small dog roughly a mile and a half from his home by volunteers who rode more than 14 miles through the woods before daylight to reach him.
Roman Heilman, six, scratched and unclothed after three days alone in freezing Kentucky woodland, was found clutching a small dog roughly a mile and a half from his home by volunteers who rode more than 14 miles through the woods before daylight to reach him.

Roman Heilman, a non-verbal autistic six-year-old, emerged from woodland near Louisa, Kentucky, singing 'E-I-E-I-O horsey' as he walked straight towards a team of horseback riders who had been searching for him. He was found around a mile and a half from his family home on Tadpole Road, scratched from thorny plants and without clothing, three days after vanishing on Sunday afternoon.

Jacob Mullins, a horse trail rider from Louisiana, and Patrick Finley, a welder from West Virginia, guided ten riders through more than 14 miles of hilly woodland before sunrise on Tuesday.

Roman was wrapped in a sweatshirt and carried down the mountain on horseback before being checked by emergency medical crews, who found him alert.

A small dog was at Roman's side when he emerged; rescuers had earlier found his diaper, pants and jacket abandoned in the woods.

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