. >> reporter: the local television station kabc captures this video of a newborn hours old in an incubatort the hospital. the local newspaper hails the woman on the bicycle as an angel of mercy. >> she looked like a little doll, just perfect. >> reporter: a perfect baby girl, abandoned on a street in this working class community of california, a street that held a gritty distinction. >> what's its reputation? >> prostitution. >> reporter: this woman's specialty is foundlings, the name for abandoned babies. >> initially i thought the mother was a prostitute working on the street. >> reporter: was it one of the working girls or a teenager from the local high school just down the street? no one ever claims the baby doe. fast forward 34 years, that baby is now all grown up. >> you take this one. >> reporter: janet lives north of los angeles about 100 miles from where she was found. >> this is my dad. >> reporter: after a year in foster care, she was adopted by a loving family. but an exing questions remained. >> do i have siblings? who are their parents? why was i adopted? why didn't they want

. >> reporter: the local television station kabc captures this video of baby jane doe, a newborn, just hours old, in an incubator at the hospital, where the nurses hang a sign on her cradle, "i know i'm somebody the local newspaper hails the woman on the bicycle as an "angel of mercy." joann, the good samaritan, stops by the hospital every day for a week, checking up on the beautiful abandoned baby. >> she looked like a little doll. a little, tiny doll, just perfect. >> reporter: the nurses nickname the baby "lady diana," after the princess who got married, as the world watched, four days earlier. it was 1981, foreigner's "urgent" was tearing up the charts. big hair and big money became emblematic of the go-go eighties. greed was good. but there are no gilded mansions in this unassuming, working class community of lawndale, california, clustered in the shadow of los angeles. where liquor stores dot the thoroughfares and hawthorne boulevard, where baby doe was found, held a gritty distinction back then. what's its reputation? >> prostitution. >> reporter: cece moore is a genetic genealo