California Man Kidnapped From a San Francisco Park in 1951 Found Alive and Living on the East Coast

The man says he was raised by a couple on the East Coast who pretended to be his parents.

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Scene of the attack: San Francisco's Baker Beach is actually federal land. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

A man who went missing at just six-years-old in 1951 has been found alive more than 70 years later, living on the East Coast. The decades-long search came to an end after the man’s niece took a DNA test that led her to her missing uncle. 

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