“I was always determined to find him and … it could help other families going through the same thing. I would say don’t give up.”
Luis Albino, right, who was kidnapped from Oakland in 1951, is seen in a 2024 photo reuniting with his brother, Roger. Luis’ family found him after more than 70 years with help from an online ancestry test and old photos and newspaper clippings. OAKLAND — On Feb. 21, 1951, a woman lured Luis Armando Albino — then only 6 years old — from the West Oakland park where he had been playing with his older brother, promising the Puerto Rico-born boy in Spanish she would buy him some candy.
That hope was fulfilled earlier this year: Thanks largely to the persistence of a niece in Oakland who used DNA testing and newspaper clippings in her search — and the efforts of police, the FBI and state Department of Justice, the kidnapped child, now a father and grandfather, was found alive and living on the East Coast.
He was at Jefferson Square Park at Seventh Street and what is now Martin Luther King Jr. Way near the family’s West Oakland home with his brother Roger when he was abducted that afternoon, according to Oakland Tribune articles at the time. But in February 2024, while watching a documentary that included some Puerto Rican folklore, she was inspired to make a new effort in her search.
Luis was located on the East Coast and provided a DNA sample, as did his sister, Alequin’s mom, Aida Alequin.
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