A six-year-old boy who was kidnapped in Oakland, California in 1951 was found 73 years later, the portal reports KTSM.
Luis Armando Albino was playing in the park the day he was kidnapped. A woman approached him and promised to buy him candy. Instead, she stole the boy and took him to the East End. There, he met a couple who raised him as their son.
Police, soldiers from the local army base, the Coast Guard and other city workers were involved in the search for the boy, but to no avail.
Eventually, he was found more than 70 years later by his 63-year-old niece, Alida Alekin. She eventually took a DNA test that showed a 22 percent match to a man who turned out to be her uncle, a retired firefighter and Marine Corps veteran who served in Vietnam.
Old photographs and newspaper clippings also aided the search.
“I was always determined to find him. My story could help other families who are going through the same thing,” Alekin said.
The FBI continues to investigate the abduction.
Before that reportedA four-year-old girl was abducted from a playground in Voronezh. According to eyewitnesses, she was lured with a doll.
Previously in the Leningrad region father kidnapped son with his wife.
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Source: Gazeta
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