The Mercury News reported this week that Albino's niece in Oakland, using DNA testing and newspaper clippings — and with assistance from police, the FBI and the U.S. Justice Department — found her uncle living on the East Coast.

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.”

A six-year-old boy abducted in 1951 has been reunited with his long-lost brother 73 years on after his dedicated niece cracked the cold case. Luis Armando Albino, who is now 79, was abducted by a woman on February 21,