REDONDO BEACH, Calif. (AP) — After 32 months of worrying whether they would ever see him alive again, a Redondo Beach family was elated and exhausted Wednesday, 24 hours after learning their son, author Michael Scott Moore, had been freed by Somali pirates.

So was Moore, who was kidnapped shortly after arriving in Somalia in 2012 to research a book he planned to write on high-seas piracy, said his stepfather, Louis Saunders.