India, Oct. 5 -- A Tennessee woman who ran away as a teenager to escape her abusive father fell in love with the police officer who was tasked with finding her 15 years ago. When Roshin Ali was just 13, she fled from her Jackson, Tennessee, home out of fear that her father would kill her. One of the cops assigned to find her was Tyler Schrupp. However, Ali returned a day later and she and Schrupp never met.

12 years later, Ali landed a job at the sheriff's department. While Schrupp did not know who she was, he was quickly drawn to her.

"He wouldn't stop staring at me, but literally wouldn't say a word at all," Ali, 28, told the New York Post.

"I thought she was very beautiful, which is why I was kind of nervous to talk to her," said Sc...