When i looked at the email, i just couldnt even believe it. But after so many tears, so many years, and so many turns in her story i was like whoa. There are still more stunning twists to be revealed. Its amazing. Its the best gift ever. Lost and found. Hello. Welcome to dateline extra. A young girl was abducted at the age of four and raised by her kidnapper. For the next four decades she searched for her family, her name, and herself. Her story has an extraordinary ending and as it turns out, that ending was just the beginning. Here is keith morrison. Our story begins with this mother of a teenage daughter. A woman who had spent most of her life trying to figure out
was absent mostly. Long stretches away, punk wa. We would go see him because he was coming in from the navy, and so it was an exciting moment, and she would get us all dressed up, and it was the anticipation of going to the shipyard and having a lot of attention. I think as a child. The memories are how she survived it all
and it was like a miracle. geri s story that shirley who took the girls had been her friend turned roommate turned babysitter. she said i ll babysit for you. i ll take care of her while you work. i said, well, that s great because i really thought i was blessed. first it was renee she looked after. then renee and pepper and then two years later little brother raymond leonard smith jr. wait. brother? it wasn t just the two girls. there was a younger brother the girls never knew they had. the father wasn t around very much. geri supported them all with what she could make as a waitress. and shirley made a change, a positive one, it seemed, at least financially. she got this job supposedly at the motel managing, which was further from where i worked. so i arranged with her to watch the kids while i worked.
it felt great. i was hoping i could find my children before i died because i m getting old and that was just like a miracle. jeri s story, the shirley who took the girls had been her friend turned roommate turned baby-sitter. she said i ll baby-sit for you, i ll take care of them while you work, and i said that s great because i really thought i was blessed. first it was rene she looked after, then rene and pepper and then two years later little leonard smith, jr. wait, brother? it wasn t just the two girls. there was a younger brother the girls never knew they had. the father wasn t around very much, jeri supported them all with what she could make as a waitress and shirley made a change, a positive one at least financially. she got this job supposedly at the motel managing, which was
at the motel managing, which was further from where i worked. so i arranged with her to watch the kids while i worked. it was a godsend, really, since geri had to be hospitalized for weeks after raymond was born. and then get back to work and find a new home to take the kids to. i come out there on my days off to stay with the kids and spend some time with them. so then i had called her and told her that i was coming to get the kids, and the next day, i went out there, and gone. not a sign of them. no kids. no shirley. frantic then, she went to the police. what did you tell them? your children had been kidnapped. yeah. and they took the report. that s the last i heard. did you go back and talk to them again? i went down there two, three times. they kept telling me the same thing. they hadn t found anything. geri didn t know who else to talk to. so she looked on her own and
i m getting old. and it was like a miracle. geri s story that shirley who took the girls had been her friend turned roommate turned babysitter. she said i ll babysit for you. i ll take care of her while you work. i said, well, that s great because i really thought i was blessed. first it was renee she looked after. then renee and pepper and then two years later little brother raymond leonard smith jr. wait. brother? it wasn t just the two girls. there was a younger brother the girls never knew they had. the father wasn t around very much. geri supported them all with what she could make as a waitress. and shirley made a change, a positive one, it seemed, at least financially. she got this job supposedly at the motel managing, which was further from where i worked. so i arranged with her to watch