Word: mcclelland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old woman anywhere who resembles these children, and who might possibly be the long-lost Mary Agnes?" Her question was answered quickly. In California, where the Oakland Tribune ran the picture, a young auto mechanic said the Moroneys looked just like his 24-year-old wife, Mary Beck McClelland, who had been adopted by a foster mother the year of the kidnaping...
Reporter Wright went to work in earnest. She interviewed retired policemen who had worked on the case, collected specimens for blood analysis from everyone in the Moroney family and from Mrs. McClelland. Doctors reported that, on the basis of the blood tests. Mrs. McClelland "could be" the missing child. Anthropologists compared physical characteristics, found striking similarities. Reporter Wright had dental casts made...
Moroney family and of Mrs. McClelland and sent them to an anthropologist who studies "genetic factors in teeth." After examining the Moroneys' dental impressions, he easily picked Mrs. McClelland's from a group of 34 unmarked casts...
Reunion & Doubt. Last week Reporter Wright got a final piece of evidence. A fingerprint expert said that Mrs. McClelland's finger and palm prints showed some of the same characteristics as the Moroney family's. The News flew Mrs. McClelland to Chicago for a reunion with her "mother," carefully hidden from rival newsmen. At a tearful meeting in the News's executive offices, Mrs. Moroney whispered hoarsely, "You look like her. Mary, it's been so long." Said Mary: "Somehow it feels right...