Luis Armando Albino was just six when he was lured from a California park in 1951 by a woman who promised to buy him candy at a nearby store.
Luis Armando Albino , right, reunites with his brother Roger, more than 70 years after he was kidnapped from Oakland in 1951. He had been playing with his oldest brother, Roger, at the time.
However, that all changed in 2020 when his niece took an online ancestry test “just for fun” and the results turned up a 22 per cent match with a senior living on the opposite coast.for several years before taking the results of the DNA test to the police in June of this year. Investigators with the Oakland police agreed it was a significant lead.Albino was tracked down by police and provided a new DNA sample, which was matched to Alequin’s mother .
For the more than 70 years Albino remained missing, he was always in the hearts of his family and his photo hung at relatives’ houses, his niece said. Before she died, his mother never gave up hope that her son was alive, and Alequin told the LA Times sheOakland Tribune articles from the time reported that police, soldiers from a local army base, the coast guard and other city employees joined a massive search for the missing boy.
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