Minn. teen sisters found two years after disappearing

These long-gone girls have finally been found.

Police on Wednesday discovered two teenage Minnesota sisters safe and sound more than two years after they went missing during a bitter custody battle.

Samantha Rucki, 17, and her sister Gianna, 16, walked out of the White Horse Ranch in Herman hours after police went there searching for evidence on the case. The girls were “safe and in seemingly good health,” police told the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

The sisters disappeared in April 2013 during a custody dispute between their mother Sandra Grazzini-Rucki and father David Rucki, who was said to be abusive but denied those accusations.

The mother reportedly picked up her daughters that month and drove them around for hours before dropping them off somewhere. She was arrested in Florida and slapped with $1 million bail this month for felony deprivation of parental rights charges, but refused to give investigators more information about her girls.

Gianna Rucki, 16, and her sister Samantha, 17, were found more than two years after disappearing.

Months after their disappearance, a judge said the girl's’ father would get full custody if they returned, CBS Minnesota reported. Records show he faced a series of traffic violations spanning years before the girls disappeared, and one count of disorderly conduct in June 2014.

The isolated ranch where police found the girls is a nonprofit that lets abused children work with horses. It’s unclear how long the girls were there or how police knew to check there. The ranch’s website disappeared after the news broke.