until 1996 when human remains were found in florida. police identified the remains as hood, and her family believed that she was dead. but in 2008 the family learned of advances in dna technology, and they requested that those remains be tested again. well, the results came back a few weeks ago and, guess what? those remains did not belong to ms. hood. her family thought that they were back to square one, but investigators took to the internet and they searched hood s first and last name, they used her birthday, and they came up with a match in florida. she s now 84 years old and rell tyes say that they can t relatives say they can t wait for the reunion that was more than 40 years in the making. quite a story for this hood family. jon: yeah. you don t get those happy endings very often. reporter: no, you don t, jon. jon: rick, thanks. alisyn: we ve just learned that casey anthony will be free just six days from now. as public outrage grows, geraldo rivera is live in orr land toe