Kidnapped Boy Found After 73 Years - The Luis Albino story
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What happened to Luis Albino in the park?
So listen to this. This kid gets kidnapped, and they don't find him for 73 years. This is wild. So one day, two brothers are playing in a local park, and they're minding their own business, having a good time. Then, out of nowhere, a woman wearing a green bandana approaches them, and she offers the younger brother some candy. And younger brother's like, sure, I want some candy. Who doesn't love candy? And the woman is like, well, come with me and I'll take you to the store to get some. And so the younger brother leaves with her to go to the store and get some candy. And that is the last time anyone ever saw him. Now, the boy, his name's Luis, and he's six. And the other boy with him in the park is his older brother, Roger. Roger's 10.
And when the woman starts to leave with Luis, Roger's like, well, I want to go too. I want some candy. And he starts to follow them. And so he walks along following them. But then after a while, he starts thinking, where are we going? Something about this ain't right. Now, keep in mind, this is happening in 1951. So this is way before stranger danger, way before there were nationwide campaigns notifying kids not to get into cars with adults they don't know. And so anyway, Roger feels like something isn't right. And he decides, this is weird. I'm telling my mom. And so he stops following them and he runs home. Minutes later, he's home and he tells his mom. Now his mom is this woman, who we'll just call mom.
How did Luis Albino's family react to his disappearance?
And he tells her what happened, that his little brother just left with some woman in a green bandana offering candy. And of course, mom freaks the f*** out. And boom, she runs back to the park to see if she can find Louise. But unfortunately, there's no trace of him or the strange woman anywhere. They are gone. And pretty quickly, mom goes to the police. And this is a whole hurdle to get them involved because she doesn't speak English, like she and the boys just recently immigrated to California from Puerto Rico. But after they cross the language barrier, police get involved and this huge nine block search gets underway. Soldiers from a local army base help out and they start looking and the Coast Guard helps by searching the Bay Area nearby.
What efforts were made to find Luis Albino?
And this story makes the news locally and that gets it a little attention there. But still, there's no sign of little Luis. And of course, mom is destroyed by all this. but there's not much else she can do. And this is during a time where there are no Amber Alerts, no surveillance cameras, no missing children computer database. All they have is a 10-year-old's description of what happened that day. And so every day, Mom goes to the police station to see if there are any updates, hoping that they'll have something. And every day, she gets the same answer. No news, no leads, no Luis. And years pass, and mom stops coming every day, and she just comes once a week, and eventually that turns into her coming once a month.
And as more time passes, she starts to only come to the police station once a year. And at this point, officers know her so well that she'll just walk into the station without saying a word, and they'll look at her, and they'll just shake their head, and she'll know that that means they have no updates for her. But, despite that, Mom never stops believing that her son is still alive.
What was the outcome of Luis Albino's kidnapping?
And she never gives up hope. Ever. So, then I guess you have to ask, what happened to Luis? Well, obviously he was kidnapped, and we don't know a ton of the details of this part. Like, we know he was taken from the park, we know he and the woman got on a plane, and that they flew from California to somewhere on the East Coast, and we don't exactly know where. And we know that then, somehow, Luis ends up getting adopted by a couple. And that couple raises him as their own. And Luis knows he was adopted, but he doesn't know he was originally stolen. But anyway, from there, he lives a fairly normal life. Like, he grows up, he later joins the Marines, he goes and fights in the Vietnam War, he comes back, and then he goes and fights in the Vietnam War a second time... And then eventually he comes back for good and he becomes a firefighter. He gets married. He has kids of his own. Meanwhile, mom on the opposite side of the country, she still hasn't given up hope.
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