“Lost for 73 Years: How a Determined Niece Unraveled a Family Mystery and Reunited with Her Abducted Uncle”
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At the age of 6, Luis was taken away from his family from a local park in West Oakland on February 21, 1951.
The Puerto Rico-born boy was playing with his then 10-year-old brother when a woman lured him away with the promise of candy and abducted him.
The alleged abductor ultimately flew the child across the country to the East Coast, where he was raised by another family in New York as if he was their own. However, his biological family back home never forgot him.
The Puerto Rico-born boy was lured away by a woman while playing at a local park with his then 10-year-old brother, Roger
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Law enforcement agents relentlessly searched for the missing boy, and young Roger was also questioned several times about how his little sibling disappeared.
Roger remained resolute in his story of his brother being taken away by a woman wearing a bandana.
Sadly, the mystery of Luisâ disappearance remained unsolved for years, and the case went cold.
His mother, Antonia Albino, never lost hope that her son was alive. She initially visited the police person bureau every day for updates on her sonâs whereabouts. The visits then became weekly, then monthly before she eventually visited the bureau every year, only to be turned away with no news about her missing son.
Luis’ mother, Antonia Albino, never stopped believing her son was alive until she passed in 2005 at the age of 92
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âShe always felt he was alive,â Alida told the outlet. âShe took that with her to her grave.â
