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Man Claims to Be Missing Ben Needham as Mum Faces 'Anxious Wait' for DNA Results
Kerry Needham awaits DNA results amid renewed inquiries into possible illegal adoption and trafficking involving a US man resembling her missing son after 35 years.
- Kerry Needham is nervously awaiting DNA results after photographs showed an uncanny resemblance to her family and Ben Needham, with Interpol asked to obtain a sample that could take weeks.
- Ben Needham vanished from Kos, Greece on July 24, 1991 when he was 21 months old, and Kerry has searched for him for 35 years amid two excavations at the farmhouse where he was last seen.
- A woman contacted Kerry saying her partner closely matches the age-progression image and was adopted in 1993, and he has long questioned his adoption and his adoptive parents' refusal to give him his birth certificate.
- The man agreed to provide DNA but requested no publicity, and Kerry's family say they will protect his personal details and support him while urging the US public to help.
- Investigators note historic illegal-adoption practices in the US have been tied to international child-trafficking, US police examined sighting reports that later stalled, and the family reports the November 2024 regional lead with two more since.
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