Niece locates her uncle Luis Armando Albino living on other side of the country after search sparked when she took online DNA test ‘just for fun’

A man who was abducted as a six-year-old while playing in a California park in 1951 has been found more than seven decades later thanks to the help of an online ancestry test, old photos and newspaper clippings.

The Bay Area News Group reported on Friday that Luis Armando Albino’s niece in Oakland – with assistance from police, the FBI and the justice department – located her uncle living on the US east coast.

Albino, a father and grandfather, is a retired firefighter and Marine Corps veteran who served in Vietnam, according to his niece, 63-year-old Alida Alequin. She found Albino and reunited him with his California family in June.

On 21 February 1951 a woman lured the six-year-old Albino from the park in West Oakland, where he had been playing with his older brother, and promised him in Spanish that she would buy him candy.

  • rand_alpha19
    27•2 months ago

    Aren’t police clearance rates for missing persons and murder cases like, in the low single digits? Cops aren’t good at this.

    • @[email protected]
      21•2 months ago

      It’s like 1-2% for pretty much any crime. They’re basically there because you need a police report to make an insurance claim.

      • rand_alpha19
        14•2 months ago

        Yeah, I’ve heard about the same. Roughly 2% even for violent crime. And yet revisiting their budgets is apparently fucking communism.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•2 months ago

      Cops aren’t good at this.

      They’re not magically omniscient, if that’s what you mean. You’ve set a really high bar for American cops, who are continually accused of being violent and stupid.

      • rand_alpha19
        11•2 months ago

        The bar isn’t really that high if you look at how cases that are solved actually got solved (deductive reasoning, forensic analysis, trust from the community including the marginalized, and focused manpower from people who give a fuck).

        It’s just that the people who want to be cops are more interested in wearing a fancy uniform, using weapons, harassing poor people, and beating their spouses than actually doing real work that involves brain power. Not to mention office politics.

        Magic omniscience would probably help though. They should work on that after solving the “violent and stupid” issue. ;)