On a February day in 1951, a six-year-old boy called Luis Armando Albino was playing in an Oakland park with his older brother. A woman wearing a bandana approached the boy and told him, in Spanish, that if he came with her she would buy him sweets.
He was being kidnapped. Albino vanished, seemingly without a trace, leaving his distraught family searching for answers. In an extraordinary development those answers arrived over the summer, when Albino’s surviving loved ones tracked him down to the east coast, where he had been living for more than 70 years.
He had been raised by a couple as their own.
Albino was traced by his niece using an online DNA test and in June enjoyed an emotional reunion with