Man Finds Long-Lost Brother After 25 Years Through Online Photos

Thanksgiving miracle (the Thanksgiving holiday in the USA) for a California family, after a man who disappeared in 1999 was found in recent days, when his sister saw a photo of him in an online article. CNN reports it. The man was found sitting on a sidewalk in Los Angeles earlier this year, according to a GoFundMe page created by the deceased man’s older sister to raise money for a medical transfer. “He just disappeared without a trace. His vehicle was never found either,” the woman said in the online post. «All this time I have been looking for unidentified remains. I was happy to find him alive!”, she added.

The sister had contacted the Lassen County Sheriff’s Department last Friday saying he believed a man mentioned in an online article was his missing brother, the local sheriff’s department said in a Facebook post. A USA Today article published in May called for the public to help identify a nonverbal man who had been hospitalized in Lynwood, California, after being found in South Los Angeles on April 15. , according to medical officials cited in the article. The woman, whose name was not released by the sheriff’s department to protect the family’s privacy, told Deputy Sheriff Derek Kennemore that her brother had been reported missing in 1999 from Doyle, a small California town more than 60 miles away. northwest of Reno, Nevada. He hadn’t heard from her since then. Kennemore contacted the hospital mentioned in the article and discovered that the man had been transferred to another facility Los Angeles in July. The deputy sheriff then asked for help from colleagues in Los Angeles County, who were able to detect the fingerprints of the man hospitalized and positively identify him as the same person who disappeared in 1999. The family will soon be miraculously reunited, announced the Nor-Cal Alliance for the Missing, a non-profit organization that deals with missing persons. “After being missing for 25 years, Tommy, a case dear to our hearts, has been found and will soon be reunited with his beloved family,” he said.

In the GoFundMe post, the sister revealed that she does not have the money to care for her brother, who is learning to walk again and cannot speak. “I would like to send him a device to listen to his favorite songs (Sailing, I Want to Know What Love Is and Time After Time) to help his memory and get some answers,” he said. Hoping perhaps for another miracle. (HANDLE).