SYNOPSIS: Thirty years ago, a baby girl was abandoned beneath a gazebo outside the village hall in Addison, Illinois. Now this lovely young woman is searching for her birth parents. There is no anger in her heart. She would like them to meet their two beautiful grandsons.

The events of the evening of January 25, 1972 will be forever etched in the mind of the police officers from the Addison Police Department. At 11:30 p.m. on that cold, snowy evening, the police received a call about an abandoned baby. The baby girl, just days old, was swaddled in a blanket. She was placed beneath a gazebo outside Addison's village hall, located near the police station. It was determined that the baby was delivered at home because sewing string was used to tie off her umbilical cord. Law enforcement is convinced that the anonymous caller was the father and that he himself put the baby under the gazebo, called police from the pay phone, and waited for police to show up before leaving. In other words, the father made sure his little girl would be found and cared for. For any number of reasons, the birth couple simply could not keep the baby. The baby was adopted by June and Donald Stiles. They named her Elizabeth.

Thirty years later that little girl had blossomed into a beautiful young woman. Elizabeth Bagwell is hoping to find her birth parents. Not an ounce of malice clouds her decision. She's always known about her abandonment. Her adoptive mother told her the story at a very early age. By the time she graduated from high school in 1990, Elizabeth accepted the fact that her biological parents were not looking for her. But her own longing never subsided and when her adoptive mother passed away, Elizabeth decided that she would begin her search. In October of 2000, Elizabeth decided to use the Internet and sent an e-mail to 50 AOL customers from Addison, Illinois looking for details of her abandonment. She received a response from an anonymous person who contacted the Addison Police Department. Police Chief Larry Stoll then gave Elizabeth the details of that cold, snowy night 29 years ago. When she was found, Addison police officers took an immediate liking to the baby, even wanting to adopt her. When the baby was taken to Elmhurst Memorial Hospital the night of January 25, 1972, it was determined that she had been born days earlier. Meanwhile, the police set out to find her real parents. Early in the case, officers had several leads but the investigation hit a roadblock.

But 28 years later, at Elizabeth's urging, Deputy Police Chief Stoll agreed to reopen the case. Stoll maintains that absolutely no charges will be filed should the birthparents come forward. There would be no point. Elizabeth wants to let her parents know that she is happily married to Kevin Bagwell and raising five children. Until she meets her birth parents Elizabeth waits and prays for a reunion that has happened a million times in her dreams.

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: Elizabeth has a birthmark on her right seat bone. She was told that at birth it looked liked a handprint with five fingers and a palm. The hospital staff deemed that it was indeed a birthmark and not a bruise. Over the years, the birthmark has faded considerably.

If you have any information about Elizabeth Bagwell, please call the Unsolved Mysteries hotline, 1-800-876-5353.