A woman has been reunited with her long-lost brother who went missing nearly three decades ago - after spotting him by chance in a news report.

Thomas Edward Manizak, 53, was last heard from on July 30, 1999, when he was just 28-years-old. He had been travelling through Idaho, Oregon, and Montana in his 1970 Ford van when he called his mother from a truck stop to let her know he was alright. But that would be the last time she heard from her son, as she sadly passed away before he was rediscovered by his family last week. His whereabouts for the past 25 years remain unknown.