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By the babysitter, shirley. where was he now? geri gave us a copy of the birth certificate and he was about 40 now. and our chances of finding him seemed, frankly, slim. we called ray smiths all over the country. ray smith in colorado and ray smith in maryland, new jersey, kansas, but did he go by the name ray smith? and then a call back. it was the ray smith from colorado. he had the right name, the right age, and place of birth and had grown up without knowing any blood relatives. all this ray...

To a los angeles hotel and showed him the story of his sisters. in a way, his story, too. >> i thought that the -- the story itself is sad. sounds like they had a rough life. and it was really similar to mine. >> so it was. and it began the same way, too, when shirley took him from jerry. except ray was turned over to a woman named anna lee brown, who named him jimmy brown, the only name he knew growing up. . >> she had told me that she had adopted me, but i was also shipped around a lot from ho...

Where was he now? geri gave us a copy of his birth certificate. he would be about 40 now. and our chances of finding him seemed, frankly, slim. we called 40-year-old ray smiths all over the country. there was ray smith in colorado, ray smith in maryland, in new jersey, in kansas. but did he go by the name ray smith? and then a call back. it was the ray smith from colorado. he had the right name, the right age, place of birth, had had grown up without knowing any blood relatives. all this ray smi...

Puzzling over the apparently unanswerable questions of his life. >> why did ann name me jim brown if my name was really ray? how come i never knew about jerry, things like that. and then i wondered, you know, was i kidnapped? >> no answers from anna brown, who died soon after that. and as for life in colorado, by the time he was 16 -- >> things were getting a little rough. maybe because of my past i wasnt a real easy kid. so i was put into foster care. >> and then he graduated from high school. ...

>> i thought that this story, itself, was sad. sounded like they had a rough life. and it was really similar to mine. >> and so it was. it began the same way, too, when shirley took him from geri except he was turned over the annalee brown, and named him jimmy brown, the only name that he knew growing up. >> she had told me that she had adopted me, but i was also shipped around a lot from home to home, because she had a lot are of health problems, from what i was told. >> he was neglected, he sa...

And our chances of finding him seemed, frankly, slim. we called ray smiths all over the country. ray smith in colorado and ray smith in maryland, new jersey, kansas, but did he go by the name ray smith? and then a call back. it was the ray smith from colorado. he had the right name, the right age, and place of birth and grown up without knowing any blood relatives and all of this ray smith knew was his mothers name. according to the birth certificate, it was jerry, and he was starting to sound a...

Geri gave us a copy of the birth certificate and he seemed about 40 now. and our chances of finding him seemed, frankly, slim. we called ray smiths all over the country. ray smith in colorado and ray smith in maryland, new jersey, kansas, but did he go by the name ray smith? and then a call back. it was the ray smith from colorado. he had the right name, the right age, and place of birth and grown up without knowing any blood relatives and all of this ray smith knew was his mothers name. accordi...

To a los angeles hotel and showed him the story of his sisters, and in a way, his story, too. >> i thought that this story, itself, was sad. sounded like they had a rough life. and it was really similar to mine. >> and so it was. it began the same way, too, when shirley took him from geri except he was turned over the annalee brown, and named him jimmy brown, the only name that he knew growing up. >> she had told me that she had adopted me, but i was also shipped around a lot from home to home, ...

>> why did anne name me jim brown if my name was ray? how come i never knew about geri and things like that. then i wondered, you know, was i kidnapped? >> no answers from anna brown who died soon after that. and as for life in colorado, by the time he was 16 -- >> things were getting a little rough. maybe because of my past, i was not a real easy kid. so i was put into foster care. >> and then, he graduated from high school. he got a job, moved in with some friends, and started his own rock ban...

Raymond leonard smith jr. is what geri called him before he, too, was snatched away. abducted by the baby-sitter, shirley. where was he now? geri gave us a copy of his birth certificate. hed be just about 40 now. and our chances of finding him seemed, frankly, slim. we called 40-year-old ray smiths all over the country. there was ray smith in colorado, ray smith in maryland, in new jersey, in kansas, but did he go by the name ray smith? and then a callback. it was the ray smith from colorado. he...