In 1951, six-year-old Luis Armando Albino was abducted from Jefferson Square Park in Oakland, California, by an unknown woman. The boy’s kidnapper flew him across the country, where he was raised by an unnamed couple as their son. Despite an extensive manhunt and the involvement of the FBI, no leads as to Albino’s whereabouts ever surfaced. For seven decades, his family was left without answers.
However, even after Albino’s mother died in 2005, his extended family never forgot about him. In 2020, his niece, Alida Alequin, submitted her DNA to an ancestry site and discovered she was related to a man on the East Coast. This prompted her to reopen Albino’s case with the Oakland police — and in 2024, authorities confirmed that Albino was alive and well.
Albino, a retired firefighter, Marine Corps veteran, and grandfather, was recently able to reunite with his biological family, bringing an end to this decades-long mystery.
Luis Armando Albino Goes Missing From An Oakland Park
On Feb. 21, 1951, six-year-old Luis Armando Albino was playing at Jefferson Square Park in West Oakland when a woman wearing a bandana approached him. Albino’s older brother, Roger, was with him at the time, but he turned his back long enough for the stranger to lure Albino away with the promise of candy…