Tests show man is not New York child who went missing decades ago

[kskiska]

Source: The Guardian

DNA testing has disproved a Michigan man's suspicions that he was a toddler kidnapped on New York's Long Island in 1955, the FBI said today, closing a chapter in a bizarre mystery that started after he began researching his roots on the internet.

The FBI said in a statement that a test showed John Barnes, an unemployed man in his 50s who lives in a trailer in northwest Michigan, is not Stephen Damman, who disappeared at age 2 from outside an East Meadow market while his mother shopped.

The sample showed Barnes could not have the same mother as Pamela Damman Horne, the toddler's sister who was with her brother when he disappeared, the FBI said. She was found in her stroller, unharmed, around the corner from the market.

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Cheryl Barnes, John Barnes' sister, said she was not surprised by the test results. Mending fences, she said, won't be easy. "He pretty much lost two families today," she said.

"We knew that was going to be the outcome. ... My dad feels the same way. Neither of us had a doubt. My dad knows who his son is. I'm angry at my brother for putting everyone through this, turning everybody's lives upside down."

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/18/kidnapped-toddler-long-island

[ddiver]

1. Another "rag" story that the MSM spent their time on.

I love the mistake of the moment mentality.

[MADem]

2. Tests show man is attention-seeking asshole who may need psychiatric help.

This jerk was born in a location where they keep pretty decent records:

John Barnes was born in a Navy hospital in Pensacola, Florida, on August 18, 1955.

[rcrush]

3. I happen to be the Lindbergh Baby

I've been on Mars the whole time.

[Soylent Brice]

10. .

:rofl:

[kskiska]

4. Whatever happened to the guy who claimed to be JFK's love child?

Why do these guys do this when they know they'll be proved liars? Their families knew better.

[ddiver]

5. Denny's?

nt

[Drunken Irishman]

6. Law and Order did a spoof of it.

You never found out if he was JFK's son, though.

[Quantess]

7. He's just a random dude who wants to star in his own reality show.

[saigon68]

8. Like the Bag who In vitroed 14 children

[no_hypocrisy]

9. That dude could've started with doing a DNA test of the people who raised him

and insist THEY are his parents.