Mother’s intuition brought baby back from ‘dead’

LUZ CUEVAS took one look at the dimpled, dark-haired little girl at a birthday party and instantly knew two things — she was looking at her own daughter, presumed killed in a 1997 fire, and she needed a way to prove it.

So, Cuevas pretended the six-year-old girl had gum in her hair, removed five strands from the child's head, folded them in a napkin and placed them in a plastic bag.

"Because of TV, I knew they needed hair for the DNA," Cuevas said.