BLOOMFIELD, Conn. -- A teenager's love for dogs may have led to her disappearance.

Bloomfield town attorney Marc Needleman represents the family of Danielle Cramer, who police discovered locked in a small, hidden room in a West Hartford home on Wednesday.

Bloomfield and West Hartford police executed search warrants at 258 Newington Road and found the 15-year-old Bloomfield girl, who disappeared on June 14, 2006.

Police arrested three people from the house, including Adam Gault, 41, Ann Murphy, 40, and Kimberly Cray, 26.

Needleman said Danielle showed an interest in working with dogs at her family's kennel and that her stepfather, Jamie Hesse, had previously worked with Gault and knew that he ran a dog-training business.

Channel 3 Eyewitness News reporter Jamie Roth reported Danielle's love for dogs was something her family saw as positive and wanted to encourage and that connecting her with Gault was, in the family's mind, a good idea at the time.

Circumstances Surrounding Girl's Disappearance Unclear

Police said Danielle had run away from her home several times and never told them where she went upon her return.

One year later, Danielle's mother and stepfather talked about the teenager briefly before rejoining her at the hospital on Thursday afternoon.

"Danielle is very happy to see her mother, wants very much to see her whole family, misses everybody," said Jennifer Hesse, the girl's mother. "She has said what she has gone through. I'm not going to tell you those things at this point. She is very happy to be reunited with her mother."

Jennifer Hesse said she always believed her daughter was alive and that Gault had something to do with her disappearance.

All three adults who were arrested faced a judge for arraignment on Thursday. The two women's possible relationship to Gault remains unclear.

All three are charged with harboring the runaway teen and interfering with police who tried to find her. Gault told police he didn't know where Danielle was living, Roth reported.

"She knows we love her, I've told her I never want to let her go again and I have no intentions to let her go," Jennifer Hesse said.

Police said Gault has been investigated for alleged inappropriate relationships with girls in the 1990s, but he never faced charges.

Bloomfield police said they have received several calls from people in Connecticut and other states who claim Gault abused them.

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