Missing Golden Girl, 10: Aurora Woman Gave Her Blanket, Pancakes

GOLDEN, CO -- Golden runaway Madeleine Malloy, 10, hid in a friend's car and was transported 26 miles to Aurora where she knocked on an apartment door and was recognized as a missing child, reports said. Questions were unanswered Friday morning when JeffCo Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Jenny Fulton announced that "Maddie" had been found.

Joyce Russell, of the 17000 block of East Stanford in Aurora, told CBS Madeleine knocked on her door around 11 p.m.

“A little girl asked if she can borrow a blanket,” said Joyce Russell to CBS. “I was actually just thinking that she was one of the kids down here on the corner because they’re always coming asking for stuff.”

But when Russell recognized the child, on television she called Aurora police, she said.

“We were like, ‘Oh my God! That’s her! That is her!’” she told CBS.

Russell called police, and helped them search for Madeleine until 2 a.m. near the apartment complex, CBS said.

Early in the morning, she heard another knock on the door and Maddie was back, this time saying she was hungry. Russell said her daughter made the child pancakes while they called police again. The child was reunited with her family Friday.

Madeline was reported missing from her north Golden home around 8:30 p.m. after a family disagreement. It was believed that she left on foot, Fulton said. Various law enforcement agencies responded to the search including Golden and Arvada police, a bloodhound K9 patrol, JeffCo Sheriff's office, the FBI and an alpine rescue Flight for Life helicopter with infrared search. Police stopped traffic in checkpoints overnight near North Table Mountain.

Watch the CBS interview with Joyce Russell here.

Watch Jefferson Co. Sheriff's Press report here: