California family reunites with uncle who was abducted at 6, over 70 years ago

An Oakland, California woman’s perseverance paid disconnected aft a decades-long probe helped reunite her household with her uncle, who was abducted from a parkland successful West Oakland successful 1951, according to reports.

The East Bay Times archetypal reported the communicative astir Luis Armando Albino, who astatine the property of 6 was playing astatine Jefferson Square Park adjacent Seventh Street with his older member Roger connected Feb. 21, 1951.

That day, the work reported, a Spanish-speaking pistillate offered to bargain him candy and lured Albino distant from the parkland earlier abducting and taking him to the East Coast, wherever helium was raised.

The pistillate who abducted Albino, according to household members who spoke with FOX 2 successful San Francisco, has since died.

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Luis Armando Albino (R) with his precocious member Roger (L). Luis Armando Albino was 6 years aged successful 1951 erstwhile helium was abducted portion playing astatine an Oakland park. Now, much than 7 decades later, Albino has been recovered acknowledgment to assistance from an online ancestry test, aged photos and paper clippings. (COURTESY: ALIDA ALEQUIN)

Albino’s niece, 63-year-old Alida Alequin, spoke with FOX 2 and shared details astir the communicative of her missing uncle, adjacent aft efforts to find him had been made by the Oakland Police Department and FBI.

Alequin said her household ne'er gave up trying to find Albino, nor did she.

In fact, successful 2020, she took an online DNA trial "just for fun," and matched with a antheral connected the East Coast.

The trial Alequin took showed a 22% lucifer with the antheral who turned retired to beryllium her uncle.

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Luis arsenic a kid with his begetter Marcial successful Puerto Rico during the 1940s. (COURTESY: ALIDA ALEQUIN)

After learning of the match, she tried to find retired who the antheral was and reached out, though she ne'er received a response.

"My girl recovered a batch of pictures of this man, and we started comparing," Alequin told the station. "The resemblance was truthful strong… however overmuch helium looked similar my different uncles. And past different representation wherever helium looked truthful overmuch similar my grandmother, that 1 gave maine chills, and I said, ‘there’s thing here.’"

Albino was yet recovered and provided a DNA sample. Also providing a DNA illustration was Alequin’s parent and her uncle, Roger.

The DNA samples were compared, and it was confirmed that Luis Albino was their missing relative, household members told the station.

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DNA samples were utilized to corroborate the household relation.  (iStock)

The accusation was provided to the Oakland Police Department, which was forwarded to the FBI. Oakland constabulary said Alequin’s probe "played an integral relation successful uncovering her uncle," adding that "the result of this communicative is what we strive for."

Last week, constabulary said the missing persons lawsuit for Luis Albino was closed, though the kidnapping is inactive nether probe by the FBI and police.

Investigators reportedly questioned Albino’s member Roger aggregate times, though his communicative astir a pistillate wearing a bandanna connected her caput taking her member remained unchanged.

With the assistance of the FBI, Albino traveled to Oakland connected June 24, 2024, with members of his household and met with Alequin, her parent and different relatives, the presumption reported.

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The pursuing day, Alequin took her parent and uncle – a retired firefighter and Marine Corps seasoned who served during the Vietnam War – to Roger’s location successful Stanislaus County, California.

"We didn’t commencement crying until aft the investigators left," Alequin told FOX 2. "I grabbed my mom’s hands and said, ‘We recovered him.’ I was ecstatic."

The reunited household had a agelong and choky hug earlier sitting down and talking astir the time of the kidnapping arsenic good arsenic what has happened since.

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Albino yet went location but returned successful July for 3 weeks, marking the past clip helium would spot his brother, who died successful August.

Alequin told the presumption the 2 brothers were making up for mislaid time. She besides said her uncle did not privation to talk with the media.