Last year, Steve Carter, of Philadelphia, found a picture of himself on a missing children's website. CBS News correspondent Terrell Brown reports on Carter's journey to find out who he really is.
Lollll. Tbh I think it's so scary if my non-existent child who will be born in like a decade or something goes missing. I feel sorry for the biological parents but Yh lol I can imagine myself beingsiler confused if I was on a missing-child website 😂
@@samprada9298 You missed the joke. The joke is that "I'm your lost long son from Hawaii" sounds like something a scammer would claim in order to try to get money.
This hits hard. My mother basically kidnapped me as well, telling my father I was a miscarriage and skipping town. He never even knew I existed until a few years ago.
Damn...that is just crazy. As a father of 2, this would be devastating and amazing to me all at once. Devastating knowing I missed so much time and being angry at myself for letting it happen, and amazing and happy being reunited with a child I never knew I had. I hope you and your father have a great relationship moving forward!
I'm just pleased that his adoptive parents are purely innocent in all of this, it would be awful to discover the parents you love are actually kidnappers. And that age progression is incredibly impressive!
@@RitchyWolf wow that's pretty scary I did recently just see a young man that saw his own picture on a missing kids paper.... of course the young man is grown now that's pretty scary
@Kittie Yang I'm pretty sure I read that in middle school. Or saw the movie It spooked me. Do they still put faces on the cartons? I think nowadays it is just "have you seen me?" On newspapers. The milk carton does make sense though since kids are drinking those for school lunches and could see themselves.
@@incogb6696 but it’s still better to know he was in good hands his whole life, and that they were just innocent people who adopted a child, not people who abducted him and pretended to be his parents the whole time. it’d be a lot harder to learn your adoptive parents were actually child abductors.
Gosh sounds like his mom kind of lost it. Glad he wasn’t kidnapped by a stranger and ended up with good adoptive parents. Very glad he found his dad and I hope he can meet his family in person.
Or maybe the father was violent and the mother fled with her child. Could be. Not saying it's fact, but it's where my mind went. The lengths she went to to obscure their traces hint at her having had a plan, not being crazy.
To be fair, he went missing in the 70s, there was no internet at that time that has databases which makes things easier. And of course, the person who went missing will always solve it much faster than ppl like his father who had almost no leads. And if this guy never thought he was a missing person, this great story wouldnt even exist and remain unsolved.
@nancyglass1112 It was nice that he had adopted parents who cared for him but not a blessing for the biological father that didn’t have HIS son in his life!
Imagine adopting a child and then finding out they shouldn’t have even been up for adoption. At least now he has nice adoptive parents and is reunited with his nice biological father. I hope they meet soon or have already met since this video is old.
@@ROMVS true. I just don't like it when people fill in the blanks with a fantasy that makes them feel better. Like painting a pretty picture over the ugly reality.
Everyone talks about how he must have felt. Imagine how his dad felt after 30 some years. His son was taken and he just had to wonder if he was even still alive. But then one day out of the blue a man calls and introduces himself as his missing son. That’s intense
@@theforeverfalling , he said that she'd left occasionally with the baby, but always came back - I guess he didn't want to acknowledge that she had psychological issues and call the police and have her committed.
I am so thrilled about this, especially for the dad, I watched this documentary when I was really young. I'm now 50 years old, this is amazing. I've always wondered if he was ever going to find his son, and I always wanted that for him, this makes me incredibly happy, I know the father really was in a lot of pain now, though he'll get to know his son, and that's awesome, I'm really hoping and wishing these 2 end up having a great relationship..
Dan Rather interviewed my dad in the Galapagos. They filmed the interview first and then filmed three takes of them walking together to the door and my dad politely opening it for him.
Scary to think of how many people out there are just living their every day lives, not knowing that they're on a missing child poster somewhere else in the world.
There are so many stories like this it's insane. People really steal children, children to missing, sold even. And the abducted children find out themselves later on. Can't imagine how insane that feels.
Listen to the video again. So many reasons! It wasn't his first thought. The fact that his birth certificate was created a year after his birth, he was 4 years old when adopted, he was told he is half Native Hawaiian, but looks Euro, so he already knew his case was odd. Then, he saw a news story about a woman who found herself by looking on Missing Children websites, and the possibility of accurate age-progression images sparked him, made him consider the possibility.
@ Sophie Gregory His mother I believe did " a runner" no warning, no reason, no note, but rather self serving. Father went to work returned home & both were gone The plan was to disappear, hence all the double dates of birth & skullduggery, anything to prevent the father accessing the infant despite desperately searching & the police being informed. Information gleaned later added to the story pre- adoption, this I found on another website ( short & sweet)
@@lynnhexler-haan3357 why did she have to disappear. All she had to do was use the family courts. They are totally against dads anyway. #EqualitygoesBothWays
Its incredible that the photo composite actually looked like him. How do you even extrapolate what someone will look like in 20 something years when all you have is a picture of a baby?!
@@rayhanes1347 maybe somebody took the baby from her. Maybe she went crazy because her baby was stolen from her. You need to her her full story before you can blame her illness on her.
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That's a great story, I have a good story myself. At 5 yrs. Old myself and 2 brothers were abandoned by our mother.our father never looked for us.someone locked our father,one by one he came to pick us up.we all were sent to an orphanage. Shot story..,at 45 yrs old.i met my mother,I had prayed all those years to find her.it was a horrible experience for me.some people just don't want kids.i feel for all that have had a life as this.im73yrs. Old now with a wonderful husband and3 daughter.love your family,hold tight to your children.may God bless you sll.
I guess this is the kind of lucky fluke that tortures parents of missing children every day until they die. "Today she'd be 13", "Today she'd be 36,", "Today she'd be 50" "Is she out there? Did I grieve too soon? Can I let go?"
@@austinyoung3315 like I said she wasn’t leaving repeatedly for no reason…. She didn’t change her child’s name for no reason…. I said what I said and I stand by it! It is never any woman’s intention to have a child and then just run away for no reason at all. There was a reason whether you would like to admit that or not.
@@Tamara-bm1nq As a woman, no. She's crazy. If she weren't, she would've given the child to a trusted family member or friend, but instead, she changed her sons name and then abandoned him. She clearly didn't want the dad to ever find him and wanted the dad to suffer. She's a horrible person and shouldn't be defended.
It was the father than arranged the missing persons listing. Therefore the artist could have simply created a younger version of the father. And he does look extremely similar to his dad.
It seems like she made sure he didn’t get back to the father. She changed the “race of the father”, which made it so they’d never link him to the father. I’m afraid that she probably had severe post partum, or the father had issues. (Which, he could have changed after losing his son for 30 years.)
Watch the movie Kramer vs Kramer. Moms were all Karen's back then..kids go to the mom. Period. Still a problem. Would be lovely if the IRA was passed as all 50 states would have current family courts gutted
@@Rhythmicons just bringing up a common issue that’s a possibility. Just a theory. Postpartum depression is much more common than people admit, so I think it’s worth mentioning. Same with domestic abuse. It was/is so common, that we should consider it also a possibility. Or she could have thought that she was being controlled by the government and was going to be abducted by aliens. Or she could’ve been a Russian spy. anything is possible. But an educated guess would be post-partum and/or domestic abuse. 🤷♀️ Something to look out for even today.
Best of luck to him and both sides of his families. Hope he gets some info on his bio mom if he is wanting it and hopefully his bio family knowing he’s out there has brought them some peace.
My first thought was "oh, were his adopted parents kidnappers?!" They weren't, nor were they really mentioned again. I know this guy has a lot to sort out, but I hope they don't forget who he became being raised by those who adopted him and they get the appreciation they deserve.
@@queenjeski591 Obviously if they were somehow horrible to him, then sure. Not enough info to go on here, but seriously- do you think raising kids should be completely thankless?
of course anyone should be appreciative but no one is owed anything but the same dignity and respect they show you. Because someone adopts you doesn’t mean you owe them anything, should someone be grateful? Sure. But because they adopted you doesn’t mean you should have to spend your life bound by the adoption.
thatgirllNancyy ...no anderes from the mother. This leads me to believe that she no longer lives. She probably died when the child was found. The Police should be consulted.
SAD BUT HAPPY AT THE SAME TIME!! THANK GOD STEVE LOOKED INTO HIS OWN PAST MY HEART ALWAYS GOES OUT TO ALL THE MISSING CHILDREN IN AMERICA LETS BRING MORE HOME!!!
@@valwilliams3834 Don't be so sure of that. Hunted my father down after 4 decades. Wanted to find out family medical history, didn't want anything else. Definitely not family, definitely detached
@@zkittlezthabanditt604 Our kids were never out of our sight in the hospital. They also have arm bands now that are supposed to match in order to ensure only the mother can take the baby off the floor.
No one is talking about the fact that someone disappeared his mother & are not searching for her. Why did she leave the dad several times, was he abusive to her?
Him: i solved the longest missing case in us history. I want my money. Cop: who'd you find? Him: me. Cop: Sir, u shitting me? Him: no, i have the evidence to prove. Cop: nah that's not how that works. You can't find yourself, this is america. The land of capitalism, even if someone found you, your parents were gonna be the one that had to pay for the reward. Him: * at his father's house *, *i want my reward money old man*
Well, her last known whereabouts are at a psych hospital. I'm assuming they let her go and she sorta just walked off. Probably safe to assume she is dead
There's so many extra layers to this. Was she released from the psych ward? Assumedly so, but wouldn't there be records of her being released? Were there and they just didn't mention it? And how was she admitted to the psych ward without them identifying her as the woman who kidnapped her son, and thus identifying him rather than putting him up for adoption. It's like even beyond the original mystery of the missing child being solved, there are even more mysteries.
Yeah appearently no one cares that something horrible most likely happened.. We're just accepting the premise that she was crazy are we...?!?! A costody case from the 70s... It strikes me as very odd that they didnt touch on it MUCH more... Especially when she went through the trouble of changing her sons name and then she "mysteriously" dissappears from a psychiatric facility(in the 70s!).. I like how they used that word "mystery" like its a fucking fairytales and not a horror story with too many loose ends and this poor mother they all say was crazy.. something went down for sure.
“In an hour tried to catch up on 32 years” Typical guy conversation. “Hey dad, it’s me your son that went missing 34 years ago” - “Oh. How you been?” - “Good. You?” - “Good. ...well ok bye”
Truth. My father would talk to his dad on the phone and it would be just a couple of minutes. He’d talk to his mother and be stretched out on the kitchen floor for an hour. lol
Still searching for my own younger brother due step father refuses me any contact. Pray daily miracle and gods help now 12 years still searching my brother is between 36 to 37 years.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏Hope jan 31 can find him. To many tears of heartbroken and searching.
Wonder how much the RU-vid team's smoking where their algorithm thinks I wanna see a 5 year old cbs show from my 2 week history of watching Pokémon streamers.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 - I was watching old Gong Show episodes and I got an ear acne recommendation. The picture alone nearly made me hurl. I have no such issues, thank you very much.
I’ve seen his picture many times on missing children’s posters in various places like Walmart, etc and different sites. Strange how some pictures stand out more than others. Nice to know this case was solved and has a happy ending. I’ve often wondered what happened to children who’ve gone missing for many years/decades ...
It's a call from destiny. It means you were given in adoption at eight months and you should start looking for your biological parents now. Your search will last eight years. Good luck
I think I can understand how his felt as I recently found out that I have a son I didn't know about for 41 years. He was born in another country after the last time I was stationed overseas. Two of the happiest days of my life have been this year. The first was opening an email I normally would have deleted and the other was receiving confirmation from our DNA tests.