Boy kidnapped from California park in 1951 found alive 73 years later

A 6-year-old boy northern California boy kidnapped in 1951 has been found living on the East Coast, where he reportedly raised a family of his own and retired as a firefighter after serving in the Marine Corp during the Vietnam War.

“Thank you for finding me,” Luis Armando Albino told his 63-year-old niece Alida Alequin, who tracked him down with the help of an online ancestry kit, old newspapers and local and federal law enforcement officials.

According to the the Mercury News, a woman promising candy abducted Albino from an Oakland park where he was playing with his older brother Roger — who died in August — on Feb. 21, 1951. The boys’ mom died in 2005.