UKidnapped boy in Oakland, California in 1951 has been found 70 years after he went missing.
When Luis Armando Albino was six years old, a girl kidnapped him from a park in the California town where he was playing with his older brother.
The woman promised to buy the baby candy and then took him to the East Coast, where a couple raised him as their own.
Now, newspaper clippings and old photographs, combined with DNA testing, have solved the disappearance of more than seven decades.
According to the Associated Press news agency, the albino’s niece, Alida Alequin, found him on the East Coast of the United States with the help of the police, the FBI and the Department of Justice.
In 2020, completely by chance, Alekwin wanted to take an online DNA test and the results showed a 22% match with an unknown man, who turned out to be his uncle.
In early 2024, after old newspapers and photographs and some unsuccessful investigations, Alekwin contacted the police and reopened the case with this new evidence, including a DNA sample from his mother, sister, who was an albino. On the other side of the country, the man gave his own DNA sample and on June 20, his identity was confirmed.
The reunion took place in Oakland on June 24 Family members – including the albino’s brother – who last saw him on the day of his abduction – were finally able to see each other face-to-face.. “They held each other and gave a very tight and long hug. They sat and talked,” Alequin said.
After that, Albino returned to the East Coast, visiting California once again, in July, for three weeks. He last saw his brother Roger, who died in August.
Articles in the local Oakland Tribune newspaper from that time describe how police, soldiers from the local military base, the Coast Guard and other city officials joined together to launch a massive search for the missing boy. His brother Roger Albino was interrogated several times, always maintaining the original version of the story: a woman with a bandana on her head took his brother.
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