Man Finds Missing Girl after Amber Alert

By Kristin SmithFirst Coast News

PUTNAM COUNTY, FL -- Just hours after seeing Morgan Leppert's face on TV, Stacy Fuller was sure he was seeing her in person.

"I was on my way to lunch," said Fuller. "When I passed them, it rang a bell, it raised a flag."

In the middle of El Paso, Texas, and on a Saturday afternoon, Fuller saw the girl described in the Amber Alert with a man on a corner, panhandling.

He called police.

"I made the call to the sheriff's department, and I told them I really thought it was them, and they said they had police on the way," said Fuller.

Hundreds of miles from her home in Putnam County, Florida, 15 year old Morgan was a missing and endangered child.

Now with Toby Lowry in jail, the questioning of the mysterious murder that happened before Lowry fled Florida with Morgan, can begin.

Lowry is a person of interest in the death of 66-year-old James Thomas Stewart.

Authorities found Stewart dead inside his home in Melrose last week.

"How was it that the phone call was made from the deceased's residence to Morgan's phone? How is it Lowry is in possession of the deceased's pickup truck?" asks Putnam County Sheriff Dean Kelly.

Now there are questions about a third man identified as Robert Brutner. Investigaros say Lowry and Morgan picked him up along the way.

"Is it a coincidence that they just picked him up hitchhiking out there and he just happened to be from Marion County and has a warrant for his arrest there?" asks Kelly.

Both Lowry and Brutner are charged with panhandling.

Putnam County investigators say they expect to also charge Lowry now with grand theft and interference of custody.

Morgan hasn't been charged.

Leppert's mother told First Coast News Sunday morning she hopes to hear from her daughter soon. The El Paso police department said it would allow the girl to call home.