Man claims he is 1955 kidnap victim

THE father of a Michigan man who believes he was snatched from his real parents in New York half a century ago called the speculation “a bunch of foolishness”.

John Barnes has long suspected the couple who raised him were not his biological parents, and now he’s awaiting DNA tests to find out if he was the two-year-old boy who disappeared outside a bakery on New York’s Long Island while his mother shopped inside. The 1955 kidnapping captured national attention.

“I’m his dad,” John’s father, Richard Barnes, said.