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Family Locates Missing Child After 70-Year Search
A 70-year search for a six-year-old boy has finally come to an end.
“Luis Armando Albino, a retired firefighter and Vietnam War veteran living on the East Coast, was kidnapped from a park in Oakland, California, in 1951 when he was 6 years old,” the New York Post reports.
NEW – (Luis Armando Albino) Boy abducted from California in 1951 at age 6 found alive on East Coast more than 70 years later – AP
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Albino was playing with his older brother when a woman lured him by promising candy.
He ended up with a couple who raised him as if he were their own son.
After being abducted as a 6-year-old, Luis Armando Albino was finally reunited with his family 73 years later, thanks to his niece’s unwavering dedication. pic.twitter.com/nlinycqgtM
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From the New York Post:
For many of his family members, including his mother, who died in 2005, that was the last time they saw him. But the family continued to hold out hope for seven decades and always kept his memory alive with pictures of him on display in their homes.
After being kidnapped, Luis had been flown across the country and was raised by a couple on the East Coast.
Officials and family members did not specify where on the East Coast he lives today, and authorities still have an open investigation into his abduction.
Luis’ niece, 63-year-old Alida Alequin, stumbled across her long-lost kin after taking an online DNA test in 2020 “just for fun,” she said.
The test showed a 22% match with a complete stranger — who would turn out to be Albino.
She tried to reach out to him but had no luck.
She and her daughters picked up the search again in early 2024 and started digging through microfilm archives of the Oakland Tribune at the Oakland Public Library.
Luis Armando Albino was 6 years old in 1951 when he was abducted while playing at an Oakland park. Now, more than seven decades later, Albino has been found thanks to help from an online ancestry test, old photos and newspaper clippings. https://t.co/dKUA1FYB1k
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Oakland police said Alequin’s efforts “played an integral role in finding her uncle.”
A DNA test comparing Luis with Alequin’s mother solidified the match.
“We didn’t start crying until after the investigators left,” Alequin said, according to the New York Post.
“I grabbed my mom’s hands and said, ‘We found him.’ I was ecstatic,” she added.
Luis and his family traveled to California for a reunion with his long-lost relatives.
Times Herald reports:
On June 24, with the assistance of the FBI, Luis came to Oakland with members of his family and met with Alequin, her mother and other relatives.
The next day Alequin drove her mother and her newfound uncle to Roger’s home in Stanislaus County.
“They grabbed each other and had a really tight, long hug. They sat down and just talked,” she said, discussing the day of the kidnapping, their military service and more.
Luis returned to the East Coast but came back again in July for a three-week visit. It was the last time he saw Roger, who died in August.
Alequin said her uncle did not want to talk to the media.
She said he had some memories of the kidnapping and his trip across the country, but the adults in his life never answered his questions.
Alequin said she was especially glad the two brothers were able to reunite before Roger’s death.
“I think he died happily,” she said. “He was at peace with himself, knowing that his brother was found. I was just so happy I was able to do this for him and bring him closure and peace.”
Alequin said she thinks her grandmother would “be very happy, most definitely. She never forgot him. She always said he was still alive. She had hope she would see him. She never gave up that hope.”
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