The Mercury News reported this week that Albino's niece in Oakland, using DNA testing and newspaper clippings — and with assistance from police, the FBI and the U.S. Justice Department — found her uncle living on the East Coast.

I was always determined to find him and … it could help other families going through the same thing. I would say don’t give up.”

A six-year-old boy who was abducted more than 70 years ago has been found alive. Luis Armando Albino vanished after he was taken by a woman in a park in West Oakland, California, on February 21, 1951.

In 1951, a woman abducted six-year-old Luis Armando Albino, left, from a park in West Oakland. For over 70 years, his family searched for him, with his mother holding onto hope until her death.