A Coffee County woman has been arrested and held in Croatia in connection with the Utah “Doomsday Mom” case that sparked an international manhunt back in November.
Lovie McVeigh, who has been living in Croatia, was also arrested when authorities in Dubrovnik, Croatia picked up Utah runaway mom Elleshia Anne Seymour, 35, of Salt Lake City. Seymour fled the United States in late November with her four children because she believed the world was going to end and Salt Lake City would be the epicenter of the destruction. Seymour took her children without notifying anyone and boarded a plane for Europe after Thanksgiving on one-way tickets. She was last seen on surveillance video getting on a plane at Salt Lake City International Airport with her kids.
Seymour’s departure garnered international headlines; the manhunt came to an end on January 26, 2026, when authorities were tipped off that she and her children were living with an American family in Dubrovnik. As it turns out, that American family was McVeigh and her son…