"Missing student, 25, found alive after 2 weeks in the Everglades eating just berries and wild mushrooms"

"Missing student, 25, found alive after 2 weeks in the Everglades eating just berries and wild mushrooms"

Posted: Aug 16 2017

By Danna Bazra, Orlando Weekly

A missing student has been found alive after almost a month alone and lost in the woods, eating berries and wild mushrooms.

Lisa Theris, 25, had no shelter, no shoes, no phone and no purse as she scoured the swamp land, lost in thousands of acres of dense marshes. She was forced to drink collected rain waters, and has lost nearly 50lbs after the weeks of being hungry and thirsty, detectives said.

A vast search for Lisa, from Ocala, had been underway since her family reported her missing on July 23. Lisa was spotted on the side of the road by someone driving by as she finally emerged from the scrub brush of Miami-Dade County, on Saturday afternoon. She was taken to a hospital before being reunited with relieved relatives.

Officials said the harrowing experience had been very disorientating for her, as she persevered to find a way out and get help. Sheriff Rodgers told the Weekly that she came out with a lot of scratch marks and that the "bugs had really been on her". Detectives said she'd been with two men who allegedly burgled a hunting camp on July 17-18. Reports said Lisa was unaware they were going to break in to a lodge and steal things and had not wanted to be part of it, so she ran into the woods.

The two men Manley Davis, 31, and Randall Oswald, 36, from Troy have since been captured and charged in relation to the burglary, WSFA reports.

The incident is still being investigated.