>> reporter: it could have been mistaken for instead, it was a mystery. you. >> that's right. >> reporter: a newborn baby boy wrapped in swaddling clothes, r, part of this catholic church's nativity scene 44 years ago. abandoned him. his mother, missing. but another mother, watching over. >> i got a feeling like this might have been where my mother ed trying to muster the >> reporter: on that silent night, left with only a handful

left by whom?0" are helping to track down his parents. and he's not alone. tonight, out of thousands of "20/20" viewers and searchers ondesperate people, pleading for our help. a woman looking for her father --w who your dad is? a sister searching 29 years to find her brother -- >> what do you mean, there's two of me?t? >> she goes, "you're not alone." >> reporter: tonight, cold cases solved right in front of you. with a sleuth --er seen these before. >> reporter: a scientist -- >> with dna, we will find a match for everyone that is searching. >> reporter: and a sixth sense.

captivated by the stranger next that long-lost brother. >> oh, my god, it's my brother. total goosebumps. it's him. it's him.king for the lost -- whether they want to be found, or not. why did you wait so long? since the day i was ing, i'm elizabeth vargas. >> and i'm david muir. viewers desperate for our help ones. >> so, we assembled a team to solve the cases. but tonight, something new and gut intuition. is there something to it? decide for yourself, as we start with my trip to that texas church, and the search for the mother that manager. >> reporter: it's the dawn of the aptly-named "me" decade. 1971. "all in the family" premieres on

recording system. and the beegees were tearing up the charts with "how do you mend a broken heart".en heart >> reporter: and in houston, texas, another heart was surely aching on a sunny wednesday afternoon, just days after christmas. discovered inside st. anne's christmas nativity scene. compounding the mystery, he and well-cared for. >> apparently the mother had taken the baby jesus figure out of the manger and put the child lace. >> reporter: two prayerful parishioners find him, but it falls to catherine allen, a h the houston children's protective service, to rescue the baby in the manger.y shoulder and he was quiet. >> reporter: at christmas in a nativity scene.

>> reporter: searcher d.j. williams, searching for his biological mother.he manger to just below the masthead as front-page headline news. but if anybody knew who the t bear witness. was there a plea for information? >> no one called. they had no leads to go on.ou think that means? >> i would say she didn't want to be found. >> reporter: d.j. would eventually be adopted and grow up in a rural houston suburb with a loving mother, father and older brother. wondering about his humble beginnings. >> when i would be working on school projects or filling in just kind of make it up as i went along. >> reporter: and young family make-believe as well. >> they told me that my mother was loni anderson and that my father was burt reynolds. >> reporter: did you believe it?

>> reporter: today, d.j. is a manager at a starbucks inside a grocery store in baltimore, maryland.r, mike, and their 6-year-old camera-shy son zephyr. they were home watching believe their prayers were answered. of pam? "20/20" episode, with phone booth baby.it was on this corner. 88th and columbus. it was the episode about louise jones, the woman abandoned as a baby in a new york city phone booth. with investigative genealogist for the missing mom. >> he felt connected to me and said tgirl that's going to help me. >> reporter: pam is constantly contacted for help, and she only works on cases she thinks she can solve. >> my stacks are kind of broken not feeling it. driving me crazy. >> reporter: pam agreed to take the case.

submit dna.case wasn't the only one confounding and cluttering the home office in pam's south jersey house.gh heels and the stairs. let's see what happens. >> where are we heading to, pam? >> long island. >> reporter: our next searcher, gina lozada of shirley, new her half-sibling. she is a mother and a wife, but she still has a hole in her heart. i will get it somehow. i am determined. >> reporter: gina grew up as an only child on the east end of ith her mother and father. >> from early on, like, why can't i have a brother or a sister? >> reporter: until that fateful day 29 years ago when a tragic into a crater. gina's father died while on a construction job.ld, what happened? massive heart attack and that was it.

it was devastating.a's dad, and best friend, had passed away. she was inconsolable. even her mother could not comfort her. >> i can't believe i have to go through this alone.ster, we could kind of deal with it together. >> reporter: and then, a bombshell. >> and she was like, "i have to tell you something."wo of you." >> reporter: what? >> she goes, "you're not alone." >> reporter: it turns out gina'sh another woman before he married gina's mom. but when the young woman's father found out, he banished olds and forbade them from ever seeing each other again. so what did he know about that baby? >> my dad thought it was a boy, apparently. then later on, i guess, my first child was a girl. so for about 15 years, i searched for a girl. "i don't know if i have a brother or a sister. i'm not really sure what name

i'm not really sure where."ow, "i'd >> reporter: that's zero to go third case, which brings us to philadelphia. not pennsylvania. philadelphia, mississippi. home to brandi's blues and mouth-watering barbecue.at is beautiful. we ain't in new jersey no more. >> reporter: meet the searcher in case number three. amanda holdiness, who is r dad, her biological father that she has never known. >> where am i? hi, honey. how are you? be a daddy's girl. >> reporter: amanda's mother told her she was not married when she got pregnant, and when she told the man, he left. home in one of the most important moments of amanda's life.

down the aisle with their father, and i never got it.nally confronts her mother and she finally tells her the name of the man she thinks is her father. amanda gives that information to pam slaton.ive her five things about where he was from, where he lived, when they met, how old he was when they met.d she said, "guess what?" i said, "what?" she said, "i found him!" i just -- i started crying. i said, "are you serious?" >> reporter: it happened so quickly. to be true. coming up -- amanda, and the test standing between her and the reunion she's dreamed about.lady called me from the dna place, she said, "i got the results." and i said, "where as, what clues will be unearthed in this university of houston basement? >> these are the first time you're seeing these photos? >> yeah, i've never seen them

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ktrk, houston's news leader. williams and helped get the word out to their 2 million residents. >> well, a man is trying to find his birth parents. >> to who he is and where he came from. >> now abc and "20/20" are helping to track down his parents.eporter: how old were you when you finally got the full story of where you were found and how you were found? >> i was probably about 15. and i had been helping my grandmother and she showed me some newspaper clippings. >> repre articles that could contain a clue. the one newspaper that covered the story, "the hosiness but in the basement of the university of houston library, some old rolls of microfilm. >> i have someone here by the name of erin.

>> i'm pam slaton. and this is d.j. >> so you haven't seen the articles? >> never have. all i have is a little yellow clipping.tely front page news. all right, so there it is. >> reporter: it didn't reveal much so we tracked the reporter of those old articles to hopefully shed some light. gary taylor was a cub reporter on the evening crime beat back in 1971. overed about 5:00 p.m. on a wednesday. >> okay. >> on friday one of our photographers came over to wherever you were and took this set of photos of you. >> looks like i'm yawning. time you're seeing these photos? >> yeah, i've never seen them before. >> that's incredible. >> reporter: next stop, we take dj to see bennett greenspan, the ceo of familytree dna. >> so let's go and let's look at your dna. and if you look right here, you have one match.eems to be an early breakthrough, some of d.j.'s dna is matching up with someone else in the database.sn't get a lot better than that.

>> that is. wow.r: but who is it? when we last left searcher amanda holdiness, things were looking up for her as well. her mother's given her a name -- a man she says is her biological father.p it open. >> reporter: now it's up to pam to track him down. >> reporter: in jupiter -- jupiter, florida. father figure suggests they do a dna test. and the results are devastating. they are not related at all.oes back to her mother, asking her for other names of those who might be her father. >> i said, can you remember anybody else?only person i can remember is samuel. >> reporter: and this was

>> correct.>> reporter: samuel skinner, a man amanda's mom lived with for a couple of years. pam finds samuel skinner living just down the gulf coast from amanda.st outside of new orleans. when skinner was dating amanda's mother, he was a firefighter in the military. today he enjoys feeding the animals in his garden and he clause. so, she called you and what did you say? >> she thought that i was her father. it was very shocking and my maing? >> reporter: sam has spent the last 30 years thinking he only had one son. was back on long island, it was a and finally call her father's old girlfriend. remember, gina's dad fathered a child with her.

it? but she's like, i have waited a lifetime for this phone call. >> reporter: wow.the woman confirms the story about being forced to put a baby boy up for adoption. she tells gina that she has a birth name. gina immediately tells all this to pam.h this investigation? >> luckily i had the name. i knew probably where he was born. >> so i finally had a starting point. >> reporter: pam spends hours scrolling through birth index records and then a match.t i am definitely looking at what i believe is her brother. >> reporter: ka-ching. wow. three hour journey from southern new jersey to new york city to the east end of long island.d gina the support she

>> we are at gina's house and we are getting ready to contact her brother for the very first time. >> this is so exciting. oh, my gosh. >> hi. >> hi, miss gina. >> hi, how are you? >> good.r: together they compare the photos of the man pam found and her father's contractor license.ce is unbelievable. >> reporter: remember, chris has no idea that he may even have a half- sister. >> here comes the moment. >> oh. waiting for. >> reporter: gina is trembling. so nervous pam has to dial the phone for her. >> okay. i'm doing it. good luck. to chris? home. it's chris' wife who answers the phone and gina doesn't want to leave a message.ually searching for family so i'd really like to talk to him first. her on what to say because it's important that you don't scare these people off. if they know that they're

>> reporter: the wife sounds suspicious, but still gives out a number for chris. >> she was very nice, but i think she was a little taken aback. well, first of all, i'm a female looking for chris. >> hi, chris?and is this a good time to talk? >> reporter: it is not going according to plan. >> can i call you back in a few minutes?phone reunion 29 years in the making is falling apart. >> he's on a conference call right now. >> reporter: 15 minutes go by. and this time he's not answering.>> oh, no, his voice mail answered. >> reporter: here comes attempt number three.ester, but she feels her chances slipping away. >> reporter: pam takes matters

texting chris on gina's behalf.'s gina again. can you talk? i have information for you." i mean, it's enticing. >> if we don't hear back from him. >> >> reporter: up next, sometimes it's not science that cracks the case. it's a sixth sense. a gut feeling. a weekend trip to a casino and unbelievably, might be locking eyes with her missing brother. and it's all caught on tape. so you were having this reaction not because of what you saw -- no, what i felt. >> reporter: stay tuned. >> our question for you tonight, if you got a phone call from anger like that, would you answer it? >> join the

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here's elizabeth vargas.ecking. >> looks like it's working. >> reporter: the video diary of people finder pam slaton. she's come to the trickiest part the search.er than a telemarketer. >> my name is pam slaton. dna and databases are all well and good, but in the end it always comes down to persuading people to spill their family r over the telephone. pam makes a house call to client gina lozada on long island, new york. >> reporter: who is about to make her own life-changing call. after 29 years of searching, gina feels achingly close to making contact with her half-brother.

now nothing.he's not answering. >> reporter: gina's starting to wonder if this simply wasn't meant to be. in fact, it's not the first time she believes she has barely missed connecting with her brother.r, gina had a close encounter at, of all places, a casino.band decide to go gambling. >> yeah, we love atlantic city. >> reporter: take a look at the surveillance footage "20/2golden nugget casino. you see gina and her husband suddenly come to a dead stop. gina says she is seized by the strangest feeling. you see her gesturing to her husband.to someone at the roulette table. there's gina. and see the gambler in the hat right there, not two feet away? roulette ball bounces around, gina feels like her number just hit.

that's reporter: what are the odds? >> total goosebumps. >> reporter: i can see them on your arm. >> my whole body just like, this is what happened. >> reporter: so you were having this reaction not because of what you saw. no, what i felt. >> reporter: what do you think that was? >> i don't know what i believe in. but that was something from above. was him, gina blows a chance to meet her big brother. she just can't work up the courage. as she turns and walks away. days later, between those attempts to get chris on the phone, gina questions his wife.estion. was he just in the golden nugget on sunday? >> that was him.im. so many people spend their life wondering, you know, have i been in the same places as the person i'm looking for? looking for across the room? they look like me.

>> exactly. >> reporter: sometimes they're right there. >> exactly.'s casino encounter, to rural mississippi, where pam is just in time for a party at amanda's house.his is the birthday boy. >> wow, look at that cake. >> reporter: amanda's son is turning 8.mother's dream of finding her birth father is finally about to come true. pam and amanda and her husband, mack, go to louisiana to meet a second man amanda's mother has identified as a possible father. his name is sam skinner.ally hope my journey ends here. >> reporter: when you met samuel for the first time, what was that like?dn't keep his eyes. he kept on doing this and, i was like, why are you staring at me like that? he's like, girl, you are a

and with many phone calls that follow, amanda and sam begin to bond. but just to be sure, sam agrees to prove he's really amanda's long a dna test. while the results are still out, i went to visit sam. you hope you are her biological dad? >> well, yes.-year-old daughter that's not going to talk back to you no more and come around wanting money and already has grandkids you can spoil and send tet -- who wouldn't want that? >> reporter: we were a little surprised to hear that sam says he's willing to be a father to e dna results are. but he would insist that amanda stop searching. >> i think we would have to make some kind of arrangement. don't look for your other father then, no more. don't look anymore. love, i'll give you mine.

ever agree to that? depending y not have to. meanwhile, there are some exciting new dna results for the man we affectionately call iams. >> there were two people who came up matching his dna very closely. so the question then became, are these two people related? two dna matches. and that's when once again pam. she figures out the man is d.j.'s uncle, and that woman, lf-sister. >> and it was just like christmas, i mean that for me was christmas, that was mind-blowing that it was such a direct dna hit. >> reporter: pam calls her. her name is rose and it turns out her own. pam asks her why. >> and she said, you know, it's really funny, she said i just feel like there's something out there. >> reporter: what does that

not right in my family, like there's a missing someone from my family. >> reporter: rose has another revelation about the baby left >> i said, could you tell me what church your family attended? she saidmom attended st. anne's. >> reporter: st. anne's? >> yeah, st. anne's, which was -- >> reporter: the church where d.j. was like, wow. the big one. >> reporter: pam slaton drives to baltimore, where d.j. stunning news she has found his half-sister and birth mother. >> what we found out is that that person that matched you is our half-sister because we were able to determine who your birth mother

>> okay. >> i have goose bumps. >> it's just nervous laughter, by the way. >> are you shocked?eah. >> yeah? >> i would say shocked. >> this is your birth mother. >> oh. >> it. >> i have her smile. >> yeah. >> that's crazy. >> reporter: but pam has heartbreaking news about the woman in the photo, the woman hurch, the mother he longed to meet, and maybe hug and hold. >> unfortunately, she passed away. she passed away in 2013. >> reporter: still, this is not because pam has found four half-siblings. the family d.j. has always longed to know. and he's about to meet them in

>> i had honestly given up hope for the longest time. wow. can't believe it. that's amazing.eporter: when our search continues. a reunion as big as texas.e get the results of amanda's dna test. and so both of you took a dna test, right? >> yes, we did. >> reporter: and you have the results? >> i do. >> reporter: okay. stay with us. poo system infused with luscious, lightweight oils. in just one wash ha ir looks instantly and visibly nourished. transforms dry hair without weighing it down. , weightlessly flowing, brilliantly shiny. as if transfromed. extraordinary.

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"20/20" continues.s amanda, and i've never met my father, and i want answers. >> reporter: amanda holdiness' search for her biological father has stretched from her home in to a false lead and crushing disappointment in florida, to new orleans where a prospective new father has been located. and now her search brings her tome of investigative genealogist pam slaton. >> her biological background. >> reporter: pam brought along d familytree dna founder bennett greenspan. amanda and her possible father, sam skinner, had both submitted samples for dna testing.ou took a dna test, right? >> yes, we did. >> reporter: and you have the results? >> i do.s see them. >> reporter: this is the second moment of truth for amanda, already let down by one other

dna.f the second man, sam skinner, with whom she and pam have bonded. >> i instantly liked him and i loved seeing samuel and amanda appeared to be like an instant connection and the two of them just, it was like they knew each other their whole lives.er husband mack and their children have already made room in their hearts for the man she can't wait to start calling dad.swer to the name. he's already making plans, you know, for your kids. but can a lifetime of hopes and dreams survive the science?lts are in. hate, and i know you've been down on a long, long road. he is not your birth father.e. >> really?

you all right? you've been down a long, tough road. >> okay. >> in, no match. >> that had to be one of the most difficult things i had to t wasn't a match and to have this girl who was so excited to finally put this behind her, and to give herews that it wasn't a match, was not an easy job to do. >> reporter: now amanda has to the man who was almost her father. >> hello? >> hey, samuel? >> yeah. is this amanda? >> yeah, this is amanda. >> what's going on?at the results

>> okay, and? >> reporter: in his own gruff way, sam couldn't have been more gentle and kind than if he da's biological dad. >> don't get discouraged. don't think bad. just think positive.resolved issue between them. remember what sam told me when i met him in new orleans? father, i mean, we'll sit back and talk. if she's going to use me as a t, use, we forget about the rest. don't go looking no more. >> reporter: he did tell me that he would be willing to be your dad, grandfather to your kids, ndition was that you stop looking. >> wow. >> reporter: amanda is stunned. but now on the phone, sam is a's life with no conditions. in fact, he encourages her to keep looking for her biological

search.inuing on and find what you need. >> i think he fell in love with her. he must have really loved and i think he felt that connection and i think he really truly wanted to be her father and if he wasn't her cared enough about her to step in and, and take over as her father anyway. >> that wasn't enough. >> even though she has an emotional need to find a father, she also wants that real blood connection. >> reporter: so she's still looking. >> right.looking. >> reporter: but will our other searcher cases have far better outcomes? after that fateful casino unter, hours of unanswered calls straight to voicemail, followed by frantic texting and

the love bottled up inside gina about to finally come pouring out. >> here we go.inally gets the man she is convinced is her long lost half brother on the phone. >> hi chris, it's gina. it certainly is.ou. are you shocked? oh! so many of us might take for granted, a simple phone call. in this case, life-changing. for both of them. >> wow, this is crazy.you for 29 years, chris. >> reporter: gina has a million questions. >> what do you do for at&t? do you have any children? you have a stepdaughter, but do no children? how long have you been married? what date in september did you get married? wow. my mother guessed that date actually. that was her parents' anniversary as well.- >> we'll do it. >> reporter: -- they make an appointment to meet in person,

reunion. >> well, it was great finally talking to you and i'm very happy that i found you. >> reporter: down in baltimore, d.j. williams is happy too, his family. but can his brand new texas siblings handle the truth about what their mother did?his information is a bit of a shock for you guys. >> reporter: stay with us. mmmmm mmmm (laughter) mmm mmmm, mmm mmm, mmm! mmmm, mmmmt. one-up your cup. add a few simple ingredients for a snack the whole family will love. mmmm. most people know the four c's of a diamond. now, kay jewelers brings

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since the day i was born >> reporter: a lucky summer day in atlantic city, new jersey. after 29 years of searching, gina lozada is heading back to

collect a jackpot.potted this man, chris depaolo, who she is sure is her half-brother. at the roulette wheel is about to be trumped by this. >> hi! oh, my god! >> how are you? let me look at you.oh, my gosh. you look so much like your dad. unbelievable. >> reporter: sometimes just one hug is not enough.urn to that same roulette table at the golden nugget where she had that jolt of intuition about the gambler in the hat. >> you were oblivious.ing and focused. it was just so funny. i sat there and watched you and use i knew

>> it's crazy. i mean, thank her and be a good brother. >> reporter: chris and gina say they are so sure their personal details match up that they don't want or need a dna test. they say they know. are lots of siblings who grew up and spent their whole life together and might not be as close as gina and chris seem to be. >> i think he's just -- he was very open to receiving her.er father had ever known. >> if you ask her, she would tell you he does. >> reporter: right. right.a, even after two devastating false leads in her search for her biological father, still hasn't lost hope.k from pam slaton and our dna detective bennett greenspan. >> i brought bennett here because it was important for me that you remain hopeful and optimistic.s painful news, but you have a lot to be hopeful for. thousands and thousands of people are testing every month ples

time. >> i feel like i've been on this journey with you. i have been.d to you and getting to the bottom of this, i promise you. >> reporter: and in houston, the biggest reunion of all, o known as manger baby, is all set to meet -- for the first time in his life -- blood relatives.e half-sisters and a half-brother. and here they come, marching down the sidewalk and right into d.j.'s life. d. long hug -- goes to rose, then katie, robert, and finally kirsten.t time since he was left alone in a church 44 years before, d.j. is in the arms of

>> you look like our uncle john. >> reporter: but amid the joy, there is tension as well, because d.j. now has to tell they have no idea he was abandoned, left in a manger alone. now he tells them what their mother did.t with -- my story begins in texas. >> yeah. >> when i was about five days in the nativity scene of st. anne's catholic church.very healthy, and i had a blanket and a stack of diapers and some formula with me. but looking back on the story and what i know now, i think there because that was the safest place that i could have been left at that time.

and, uh -- and so that would be the safest place that i would be found. information is a bit of a shock for you guys. this is the article that ran in the "houston post." i know this is a lot to take in.arch continues. the other big unknown -- his birth father. maybe, just maybe, he's out there somewhere watching tonight. there is one other person who m the very beginning of d.j.'s amazing

cradling the foundling in her arms.herine fitting, and we found her, living in colorado. she was happy to fly back to see d.j. again for the first time in more than 40 years.w up nice and big. >> i did. i did. >> he was the most precious baby.ul, beautiful baby. >> reporter: as for his birth mother, sadly, d.j.'s later -- have no clue why she did what she did. but d.j. says he can live with that. really? you can be at peace with just knowing who she is, not why she did what she did? >> exactly.r me, it -- it was about finding that connection. you know, you're like a -- like you're just floating in the sea and you don't have any anchor to -- to hold onto.have something

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