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To tell a story. shirley had been her friend, she said. told her about a woman working in the sex trade named geri smith who didn't want her babies and one day shirley showed up at barbara's house with a 3-month-old baby she called rhonda patricia smith. barbara could e it was a littleffy but she wanted that by so badly. and so she said she ignored the red flags. >> nope, didn't care. didn't really care. >> she was going to see to it, she said, that rhonda was loved and cared for by the best parents she could ever possibly have. bob and barbara legally adopted their little princess four years ...

Dateline was happy to broadcast it all around the country on march 25th, 2011, no idea that something quite unbelievable would happen because one of the people who tuned in that night was a woman named geri, and oh, what a story she had to tell. coming up -- it was a story two sisters had waited a very long time to hear. >> 99.99% probability. that means it's confirmed. >> when "lost and found" continues.

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, which was further from where...

>> 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...

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 ...