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SYNOPSIS: At the age of three Lori Delorme Magnin was adopted under mysterious circumstances by a family in Kansas City, Missouri. The reason for her adoption was kept secret by all parties involved. Lori had no idea what happened to her birth parents or her brother and three sisters. As she grew older, Lori searched for her family, but only discovered that her mother, Francis Camarena, died on November 27, 1956. Along with her husband and son, Lori decided to look at the Kansas City Star on the day of her mother's death. Staring back at her from the front page was a fourteen-month-old, Laurie, surrounded by her four siblings. The accompanying article revealed what had been a dark violent secret in Lori's past. In the pre-dawn hours of November 26th, 1956, Lori's father, Alexander Camarena murdered Lori's mother. Lori learned that her father was convicted of second-degree murder and died in 1991. But her efforts to find her older sisters, Phyllis, Rosemary and Nancy, and her younger brother Robert, had failed.
UPDATE: Minutes after our broadcast Ruth Crook, Lori's birth cousin, contacted our telecenter. A friend of Ruth's had seen the show and told her that her long lost cousin was looking for her birth family. Three weeks later, Lori found herself at her adopted sister's house outside of Kansas City, eagerly awaiting the arrival of the relatives for whom she had spent her entire life searching. She first met her older sister Rosemary. Soon, Lori was surrounded by aunts, uncles and cousins she never knew she had. As her birth family and adopted family became acquainted, Lori's circle of loved ones grew larger than she could have ever imagined possible. And for the first time, Lori saw a picture of her mother. The eldest sister, Phyllis, was unable to attend the reunion, but Lori saw her shortly after the reunion. Sadly, Lori's younger brother Robert, seen as an infant in the news photo, died in 1982. And the family is still searching for one last missing sibling: Nancy Camarena.
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