Arkansas judge left in a shoebox as a newborn, discovers birth parents after Fox News interview
“Even if you open up adoption records, it’s not going to help those people,” Moore said. “So we call this DNA-only cases. The only way to identify the birth parents in cases like that is to have their DNA tested.”
Wood has struggled with his identity throughout his childhood. Wood later relocated to Arkansas, becoming the state’s first Black county judge.
After Illinois passed a law in 2010 allowing adult adoptees to apply for their original birth certificates, Wood found out that he had been abandoned on March 20, 1965, the day he always thought was his birthday.
Moore says it’s “a race against time” when attempting to locate family members because people can pass away before he would be able to find them.
On Dec. 23, 2021, Wood got a call from Moore informing him that a match was discovered. Unfortunately, Wood’s mom passed away in 1978 at age 36 and his father died in 2007 at 68, and one of his brothers passed in 2013 at 48-years-old. Wood’s maternal grandfather passed away in 2020 at 98 and he hasn’t received a response from his brother and sister that currently still alive.
“I want to connect with my brother and sister first.” Moore said. “My dad was one of 10 or 11 brothers and sisters. My mother was one of six brothers and sisters, a number of whom are still alive. And so I don’t want to start reaching out to uncles and aunts without trying to connect with my siblings first.”
“I’m just blown away that I got this far. I thought I would not know anything for the rest of my life,” he said.
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