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   Police probe ties between suspect and found teen   
   BLOOMFIELD, Connecticut -- Police are investigating past ties between a   
   missing 15-year-old girl who was found this week in a tiny hidden room and   
   the man they believe was responsible for her disappearance a year ago.   
      
   Police arrested Adam Gault and two women who live in nearby West Hartford,   
   where police found the teenager while serving a search warrant looking for   
   clues to her disappearance.   
      
   Gault, 41, and the girl frequently talked before she vanished in June 2006,   
   Bloomfield Police Capt. Jeffrey Blatter said.   
      
   "There was an inordinate amount of contact via cellular phone and then,   
   during follow ups, there were a lot of other circumstances that led us to   
   believe there was an inappropriate relationship," Blatter said Thursday,   
   appearing on CNN.   
      
   Authorities said the girl had a history of running away from home. The   
   Associated Press is not identifying her because police are investigating if   
   she was sexually abused.   
      
   Gault, Ann Murphy, 40, and Kimberly Cray, 26, were to appear in Hartford   
   Superior Court Thursday morning on multiple charges. Each were held on $1   
   million bond.   
      
   Police said Thursday they were trying to determine if the girl was being   
   held against her will and if she wants to go home. The girl was taken for   
   medical and psychological exams, and was in protective custody Wednesday   
   night.   
      
   Police already had established that Gault knew the girl, and said he and the   
   girl's parents had some sort of undisclosed business transaction in the year   
   before she disappeared. Officers had questioned Gault several times, but he   
   always denied any involvement in her disappearance.   
      
   Police served a search warrant on Gault's home Wednesday morning, seeking a   
   DNA sample and other evidence.   
      
   During the search, an investigator discovered a hidden doorway behind a   
   bureau. The locked door led to a tiny room, about 3 feet high and 4 to 5   
   feet deep, where the girl was found.   
      
   "The outcome was phenomenal, and quite unexpected," Blatter told reporters   
   Wednesday.   
      
   Blatter said it did not appear the girl lived in the hidden room, and that   
   police did not find bedding or other items that would suggest it was used as   
   living space.   
      
   "We have some mixed signals at this point," Blatter told CNN Thursday.   
   "There's some speculation that she actually has been out of the house,   
   possibly out of state a number of times, but it has clearly been a very   
   interesting lifestyle from what we have seen so far, and definitely not very   
   healthy.   
      
   Police were unsure how long she had been inside. They said she could not   
   have opened the locked, barricaded door on her own.   
      
   The teen had no obvious external injuries. Investigators would not speculate   
   on what she might have experienced during the past year or if she was held   
   against her will.   
      
   A 15-year-old boy was also living at the house, though it wasn't clear whose   
   child he was. The boy's case was referred to the Department of Children and   
   Families, which also will decide if the missing girl should be returned to   
   her parents.   
      
   Neighbors said Gault and Murphy had lived in the white two-story house for   
   five or six years, posting signs in the yard advertising puppies for sale.   
   An empty chain-link dog kennel with two doghouses could be seen in the back   
   yard.   
      
   Gault was charged with unlawful restraint, reckless endangerment, custodial   
   interference, interfering with an officer, risk of injury to a minor and   
   forgery.   
      
   Murphy, described by police as Gault's common-law wife, was charged with   
   conspiracy to commit reckless endangerment, conspiracy to commit custodial   
   interference and risk of injury to a minor.   
      
   Cray was charged with reckless endangerment, conspiracy to commit custodial   
   interference, risk of injury to a minor and conspiracy to commit unlawful   
   restraint.   
      
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