( CNN ) -- The detectives knew who abducted 5-year-old Richard Wayne Landers Jr. in 1994 . His paternal grandparents , reportedly angry about a custody case involving the small boy , took him and disappeared from Indiana . For 19 years , Indiana State Police searched for him , but it was last October when the missing boy case turned into one of changed identities . According to a news release on the state police website , a detective was given Landers ' Social Security card . He matched it to a 24-year-old man in central Minnesota about 100 miles from Minneapolis . Police looked at the man 's driver 's license photo . It could be him , they thought , comparing it to the photo of Landers as a boy . Some months of detective work followed and police found the grandparents , who they say admitted to assuming new names , in a town near Landers , who has been living under a name given to him by his grandparents . Landers is married with a child on the way . It is unclear when he will be reunited with his mother , Lisa Harter , and her husband . Charges in Indiana against the grandparents were dropped in 2008 . A spokesman with the Indiana State Police said the FBI and Social Security Administration also were investigating the case . CNN 's Carma Hassan contributed to this report .
Richard Wayne Landers Jr. and his grandparents had been missing since 1994 . When he was 5 , he was taken from Indiana . Police tracked him down recently in Minnesota , living under a different name . His grandparents , who also have aliases , live nearby .