In 1955, Steven Dammen disappeared on Halloween from a New York bakery. His mother had left the baby stroller with he and his sister outside a Long Island grocery store while she went in to make a purchase. When she came out her boy was gone. He had been kidnapped.

As John Barnes grew up he more and more became aware he didn't look like any of his family members. They were short with dark hair. He was tall with blond hair. As he grew up he was always treated different than others in the family, almost like an outcast. He also had noticed that there were no baby pictures of him, as there were other members of the Barnes family.

He began digging around on the Internet looking at pictures of kidnapped children who would be around his current age of 54.

Many leads ended in dead-ends. And, then, he stumbled onto the baby pictures of Steven Dammen, and pictures of his young mother.

John Barnes noticed a striking resemblance to the young mother. Even the baby pictures looked like him.

Steven Dammen's father, Jerry, is still alive, as is the former Mrs. Dammen, Steven's mother, and Mr. Barnes, today, looks a lot like Mr. Dammen. The one thing I noticed immediately is the eyes...

Steven Dammen

He is currently awaiting FBI DNA testing results...

Related Story Links:
Mr. Dammen's point of view:
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/nassau/ny-lidad1812889263jun17,0,2258153.story

Former Nassau County Detective Matt Bonora, 81, worked on the investigation of missing 2-year-old Steven Damman in 1955. (Photo by Gordon M. Grant / June 17, 2009)
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/nassau/ny-licops1812888527jun17,0,6573234.story

Newsday's front cover wrote about missing boy Steven Damman, and of the thousands of people who searched for him. (Multi Credit Photo / November 2, 1955

From newsrooms to living rooms, kidnapping stunned Island:
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/nassau/ny-linabe1712885811jun16,0,1479790.story

Slide Show - 21 photos
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/nassau/ny-damman-photos,0,171638.photogallery

UPDATE: FBI: John Barnes is not LI boy who was kidnapped
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/nassau/ny-lidamman0619,0,6169685.story

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