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| - Details: Carla Jean Downing had always felt different from her family members, especially because she had different hair and eye color than everyone else in her family. These feelings were forgotten after her mother, Mildred Libby, passed away in June of 1965, when Carla was sixteen. She and her brother were sent to live with their grandparents in Alexandria, Virginia. A few weeks after her mother's funeral, a woman named Mary visited her grandparents' home. Carla's grandmother said that Mary was a friend of her mother's. After Carla graduated from high school, she married and had a son. Despite this, she still felt out of place with her family. In 1990, Carla's father died and she traveled to Arlington, Virginia, for his funeral. A relative gave Carla a briefcase that contained several im
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| - Details: Carla Jean Downing had always felt different from her family members, especially because she had different hair and eye color than everyone else in her family. These feelings were forgotten after her mother, Mildred Libby, passed away in June of 1965, when Carla was sixteen. She and her brother were sent to live with their grandparents in Alexandria, Virginia. A few weeks after her mother's funeral, a woman named Mary visited her grandparents' home. Carla's grandmother said that Mary was a friend of her mother's. After Carla graduated from high school, she married and had a son. Despite this, she still felt out of place with her family. In 1990, Carla's father died and she traveled to Arlington, Virginia, for his funeral. A relative gave Carla a briefcase that contained several important documents. She later learned from her uncle that her mother Mildred had suffered a series of miscarriages in the 1940s. In 1948, she met an unmarried, pregnant immigrant named Mary; they knew that Mary would be unable to keep her child, so Mildred and Mary decided to switch their identities. The birth certificate would then say that Mildred Libby was Carla's mother. Carla was then officially Mildred's child and was raised as such. Carla learned from her uncle that the woman named Mary that she had met in 1965 was actually her birth mother. Since then, Carla has been searching for Mary. Extra Notes: The case was featured as a part of the September 18, 1991 episode. Results: Solved. A viewer's tip led Carla to her birth mother, Mary Maxwell, and they were reunited just a week later at Mary's home in Maryland. Carla was also reunited with her two half-sisters and nephew. Links: None
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