New York
The mother of a woman missing for 23 years says she never gave up hope that she would be reunited with his daughter.
"I've always thought she would find me," Joy White told the New York Post this week after seeing his 23 year old daughter, Carlina Renae White, for the first time since she was just 19 days.
White last saw her daughter, Aug. 4, 1987, when he took her to Harlem Hospital, due to the extremely high temperature, the New York police official said.
Carlin was admitted to the hospital and the White House to rest. When the mother returned, Carlina has disappeared.
"This has been a big part of my heart that everything was broken," said Carlina biological father, Carl Tyson, the Post the disappearance of her daughter.
Police have not named a suspect in the alleged abduction, and they do not say much about the woman who raised Carlina White, who continue their investigation. White told the Post that the woman who raised her is Ann Pettway, who said she was pregnant in 1987 but lost her baby.
"Nobody knew because she was pregnant and returned to me," said White. "There was something in its place."
But White, who grew up under a different name, had raised a persistent feeling that she was raised by a family that did not belong, "said Ernie Allen, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
And his suspicions became stronger after the woman who raised him she could not give a birth certificate.
White said she wondered: "Where did you make me leave?"
"I just started to write to Yahoo and Google different items - everything stopped in 1987 with a missing child - and I found the article and photo of a baby just because I hit it. .. It looked like my daughter," said White, now the mother of a 5-year-old Post.
"I swear, I stayed in that section for two hours."
The phone rang on January 4th Joy White. The woman at the other end of the line said she was Carlina, and sent a white photo taken in 1987.
Faces in the photo bore a striking resemblance to the child in a white image in tatters had been closed. The police also decided that photography seems to be identical and the DNA test.
Tuesday, the results came back - and they were playing.
Lisa White-Heatley's sister Joy Carlina White was a meeting, and his mother.
"It was a beautiful experience," she said Friday on NBC's "Today" show. "His face looked like -. She herself, I just grabbed her I was so happy to see her And then my sister started crying and Carlina said," Mom, do not cry. ".."
Regina Tyson, Carlina White biological father of his sister, niece described her relationship with her family, "immediacy."
"It has always been what I wanted since I discovered this lady was not my biological mother," Carlin told the Post his family again gathered.
"I just hope that the officials can get their hands on, so that you could only listen to what his side."
Biological family, meanwhile, said he wants justice.
"I want her to go to jail ... for what he did and what he did to my family," said White-Heatley the man who kidnapped his niece. "It destroyed my family."