my stacks are kind of broken up by current, not feeling it, driving me crazy. >> pam slaton is a one-womanent of missing persons. >> i put in the biological father's name. >> she calls herself an investigative genealogist. >> i find your case completely intriguing. >> pam knows firsthand not all searches end well. >> you yourself were adopted as a baby. >> i am. >> and you yourself went on a hunt to find out who you were. >> i did. >> but pam says her birth mother did not want to be found. she rejected pam, for the second time. years later, the memory still hits a nerve. >> wow. you know, it's been 20 years. i don't usually -- it just -- it was -- it changed my identity. it's really the only way i can explain it. >> pam not only survived that trauma, she wrote a book about unlocking family mysteries and discovered her calling -- helping other searchers like louise jones, searching for the mother who left her in a manhattan phone booth in 1965. >> how are you? >> good. >> pam slaton meets louise to gather the little information louise has gathered over the years. >> and do you know what kin

. >> pam slaton is a one woman department of missing persons. >> i'm searching for people. >> reporter: the age-old question, who am i? >> where did i come from, who do i look like? >> reporter: candy wagner is a searcher, too. a 62-year-old retired physical therapist, hoping to find healing. for 20 years, she's been searching for a baby she gave up for adoption in 1967. at 14 years of age, with an absent father and a difficult mother, candy was dating a boy three years older. your first boyfriend? >> my first for everything. >> reporter: when this picture was taken, they didn't know it, but life was about to change drastically for the two young sweethearts. candy was pregnant. >> at that time, in a small town, it is absolutely traumatic. >> reporter: candy's baby would immediately be put up for adoption. on april 17th, 1967, the baby arrived. it was a girl. candy asked for her. >> may i see her? may i see her? >> reporter: and they said? >> no. no. >> reporter: what did you do? >> i yelled. i screamed. i said, please, let me hold her and they said, no, that would not be a good idea. i