The man who is really the father of John Barnes said that his son was spreading "foolishness" when he claimed to be a missing boy from 1955!And it turns how that the amazing story that John Barnes told the world really was nothing but a work of his imagination.
You know,his story really did not sound credible to me.That is why I waited to see what the end result would be before I did a post on this guy.
Maybe all of this speculation was just an unemployed man's way of getting his hands on some dough.Too bad for him that it did not turn out to be true.Because he has pissed his real family off!
And it was all for naught.
Here's more from cbs4Denver:
"DNA testing confirmed that a 54-year-old Michigan man is not a toddler kidnapped in Long Island, N.Y., in 1955, the FBI said Thursday.
The FBI said testing showed John Barnes of Kalkaska, Mich., is not Stephen Damman, who disappeared at age 2 from outside an East Meadow bakery while his mother shopped.
"DNA samples analyzed by the FBI laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, show John Barnes and Pamela Damman Horne do not share the same mother," the FBI said in a statement, referring to the sister of Stephen Damman.
Barnes has said he has long suspected the couple who raised him are not his biological parents, and the FBI took his DNA sample. He said he began investigating his origins years ago and found photos on the Internet that led him to believe he could be Stephen, reports CBS station WCBS-TV in New York.
Barnes said pictures of the missing boy's mother when she was a young adult resembled what he looked like at the same age.
In Iowa, Stephen's father, Jerry Damman, said the news was disappointing.
"It's too bad we had to go through all of this for actually nothing in the end," he told The Associated Press.
Barnes said he was born the same year the boy disappeared, but that he only saw his birth certificate once.
Barnes' father, Richard Barnes, has called the speculation "a bunch of foolishness." He said John Barnes was born in a Navy hospital in Pensacola, Fla., on Aug. 18, 1955.
Police in Nassau County, N.Y., said a Michigan man contacted their office in the past few months saying he believed he was the missing toddler."(END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here.
What a bunch of hokey!
