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>> why did ann name me jim brown if my name was really ray? how come i never knew about jehri? 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 wasn't 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 band. this youtube video shows him singing lead. ♪ leave it alone and for all he's wondered about...

Jehri gave us a copy of his birth certificate. he'd be just about 40 now. and their chances of finding him seemed sfrankly slim. he called 40-year-old ray smiths all over the country. 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. they had the right name, right age, place of birth, had grown up without knowing any blood relatives. all this ray smith knew was his mother's name. according to his birth certificate was jerry. he was starting to sound a lot leek our ray. we asked...

Me a while to get an answer to that. i really had to think about that hard. i'm one of these tender hearted people, and i said i want her to know her sister. >> sister? why, yes, barbara told rhonda she and renee were half sisters, daughters of the name mother, the woman who worked the streets. barbara said by then she didn't trust shirley with rhonda, but -- >> i want rhonda to know her sister. i wanted her to have family and stuff, and i asked bob, and he said no, she couldn't at first, and then he relented, let her go. and next morning we went to get her, and they were gone. >> and they did...

She was a friend of her mother's she said. she said renee, a little girl with her was six. this is renee now. that room is stuck in her memory too. >> her name was gorgeous. a nice size room for a little kid. she had a canopy bed. she had tons of dresses. toys galore. >> and you had none of that? >> no. i was like wow, this is nice. >> an alien world to renee. the most wonderful thing she'd seen. while the little girls played in the living room, shirley was talking and then she called renee. >> when it was time to leave, i didn't want to go. i said can we stay longer? >> no, but your new frien...

>> renee was feeling abandoned. >> i told her don't go. stay here. i need you. you're my sister. so she went. she did her thing, and i was upset, and i was sad. >> by 1986 and on her own now, pepper had given hope she'd ever find her real parents, but she had an immediate problem, the trouble that comes with having no real name, no i.d., no birth certificate. she was under rhonda smith at shirley's urging at school. she had no way to prove her legal name, and without some cooperation from shirley, her search for such documents seemed hopeless. and then -- how did you find out she was sick? >> ...