If this is true, I would like to know everything about this story! Who kidnapped him, why and how did he end up contacting these people.
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EAST MEADOW, New York - More than 50 years after a 2-year-old boy disappeared from outside a bakery in suburban New York, a man from Michigan has come forward to claim that he was the missing boy, authorities said Tuesday. The missing boy's father, Jerry Damman, said he was hopeful the man is his son. "After all those years, you kind of lost all hope," he said Tuesday. Authorities didn't release the Michigan man's identity. He approached Nassau County police and federal authorities over the past few months and said he believes he is Steven Damman, Nassau County Police Lt. Kevin Smith said. The case was referred to the FBI and authorities are awaiting DNA results to determine if the man's claim is true, Smith said. Sandra Berchtold, a spokeswoman for the FBI in Detroit, declined to comment on Damman's case Tuesday. Jerry Damman said "it's very possible" that the man could be his son. "To a certain extent this would probably close it," said Damman, who lives on a farm near Newton, Iowa, about 30 miles east of Des Moines. The unidentified Michigan man believes he never fit in with the family he grew with up, an official familiar with the investigation told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the man's claim was still under investigation. The man believed he might be a missing person and learned of the Damman case by researching cases around the nation, the official said. |
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