Woman Abducted as Infant in 1987 Meets Family

[alp227]

It was an abduction that made headlines and stunned the authorities: A 3-week-old infant, taken to a Manhattan hospital in August 1987 for treatment of a fever, was snatched by a woman dressed in nurse’s clothes and never heard from again.

Two decades later, with investigators stumped and the case cold, the parents of the abducted girl refused to give up hope, believing that someday their daughter might return.

Their prayers were answered.

Carlina White, now 23 and living in Georgia, was reunited on Friday with her biological parents, Joy White and Carl Tyson, bringing an end to one of the most baffling missing persons cases in the New York Police Department’s files. The reunion brought elation to a mother and father racked by pain and anger for over two decades, and a new family for a woman who had long held deep suspicions about her past.

Full story: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/20/nyregion/20kidnap.html

[gateley]

1. Wow. Amazing. Had it not been for the internet, both she and her natural

mom may have gone the rest of their lives never being reunited. Happy ending!

[Maru Kitteh]

2. “Obviously the missing-person aspect of it is closed, but the abduction part of it is not,”

“Obviously the missing-person aspect of it is closed, but the abduction part of it is not,” he said. “We have our suspicions of who may be responsible, but not enough probable cause to permit an arrest.”

:wtf: Uh. How hard could that be? Unless the family she was with bought her, in which case, throw their ass in jail for that!

[progressoid]

3. Huh?

“We have our suspicions of who may be responsible, but not enough probable cause to permit an arrest.”


That's kind of weird.

[Rowdyboy]

4. An absolutely amazing story....