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>> 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 of health problems, from what i was told. >> he was neglected, he said, and often abused, bounced around for years. until anna brown shipped him off to a colorado couple when he was 14. and that's when he found his birth certificate, started calling himself ray smith and began 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 jeri? things like that. and then i wondered, you ...

Where did they go? the little girl had no idea. but she did know that from now on, she had a new name. they called her pepper. pepper smith. she was not yet 5 years old. >> we lived in cars and motels and going from state to state staying at salvation armies to get a meal here and there. just -- >> what's it like to live in a car? >> it's horrible. it's embarrassing. >> she was confused, of course, and terribly frightened at first. she begged, take me home. shirley ignored her. she agined running ay. >> i had nowhere to go. i was too scared. >> then as the weeks and months and then years went ...

>> her name was shirley. a friend of her mother's. the little girl she brought with her was renee and renee was 6. a little older then. didn't matter. they dashed off to her bedroom to play. this is renee now. that room is stuck in her memory, too. >> her room was gorgeous. a nice sized room for a little kid. she had a canopy bed. tons of dresses. toys galore. >> and you had none of that. >> no. and i was li, w, thiis nice. >> aaln wod to ree. the most wonderfulhing she'd ever seen. and whilthe little girls played in the bedroom, shirley was with bobbie in the living room talking. and then she...

Raymond leonard smith, jr. is what geri called him before he too was snatched away, abducted by the babysitter, shirley. 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 yield ray smiths all over the country. ray smith in colorado, ray smith in maryland, in new jersey, in kansas. with you 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 grown up without knowing any blood relatives. all thi...

And the was no doubt we found him. we brought ray and his fiance to a los angeles hotel and showed him the story of his sisters. in a way, his story, too. >> i thought the story itself was sad. it sounded 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 geri. except ray was turned over the a woman named anna lee brown, who named him jimmy brown. the only name he knew growing up. >> she told me that she adopted me. but i was shipped around from home to home because she had a lot of health problems from what i ...