A story getting wide cover in Oz: Mum finds 'dead' daughter
[link|http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/03/1078191370649.html|http://smh.com.au/ar...078191370649.html]
Seems the 10 day old baby was stolen (by a cousin of the father) & the house torched to hide the crime. They were from Philly PA.
Police & fire authorities believed the baby had been burned to cinders in the fire.
Mother was at a birthday party 6 years later & saw a girl who was a dead ringer for her other kids - she was so convinced that she made an excuse (gum in hair) to snip a lock of the childs hair & have it dna analysed. Result was a 100% hit.
Mother gets daughter back.
From appearance am guessing they are Puerto Rican or some other variety of hispanic.
Doug M
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dmarker
March 10, 2004, 02:11:47 AM EST
A story getting wide cover in Oz: Mum finds 'dead; daughter
[link|http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/03/1078191370649.html|http://smh.com.au/ar...078191370649.html]
Seems the 10 day old baby was stolen (by a cousin of the father) & the house torched to hide the crime. They were from Philly PA.
Police & fire authorities believed the baby had been burned to cinders in the fire.
Mother was at a birthday party 6 years later & saw a girl who was a dead ringer for her other kids - she was so convinced that she made an excuse (gum in hair) to snip a lock of the childs hair & have it dna analysed. Result was a 100% hit.
Mother gets daughter back.
From appearance am guessing they are Puerto Rican or some other variety of hispanic.
Doug M
