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>> she said i'll babysit for you. i'll take care of her while you work. i said, well, that's great because i really thought i was blessed. >> first it was renee she looked after. then renee and pepper and then two years later little brother raymond leonard smith jr. wait. brother? it wasn't just the two girls. there was a younger brother the girls never knew they had. the father wasn't around very much. geri supported them all with what she could make as a waitress. and shirley made a change, a positive one, it seemed, at least financially. >> she got this job supposedly at the motel managing,...

>> i asked her to come in and see me the very next day, which she was very anxious and happy to do. i asked her to bring me whatever evidence she had. >> in that meet, the woman presented her evidence. >> she brought some photos that she had of pepper and renee when they were very little. >> she told allred she had been a waitress when the girls were little. brought a photo of that, too, and a picture of shirley and also a photo of a man she said was the girls' father, long since dead. her name was geri. >> i asked her immediately, geri, would you be willing to do a dna test? she said i'll tak...

Had described her. >> yes, i heard what they said about me. i was not a street walker. i was a waitress all my life. >> you also said you didn't really want your children. you were happy to abandon them. >> i never abandoned my children. never. ever. and would never, ever do that. >> and she wasn't a drug addict either, she says. she's not had a smooth or easy life. and for much of it, she has missed her children and blamed herself for what happened. trusting shirley? >> yes. >> and for not having those kids under your wings all the time? >> i felt like it was my fault because i put them -- in...

>> that's it. >> yep, that means it's confirmed. >> i can't believe this is actually happening. h soon could they meet geri, e sisters wanted to know. and what's she like? how did she know shirley. we arranged a reunion for the next day. geri arrived first and told us how she saw the long lost girls on the program. >> i saw the picture of shirley and went crazy. i knew who she was. and then when i saw the girls, i knew they were mine. >> after how -- all those years? >> 37 years. there they are. >> what did that feel like? >> it felt great. i had been hoping to find my children before i die be...

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...