View Full Version : Woman looking for family that adopted her?


amandab1234
12-12-2014, 03:14 AM
I can't remember her name, but it was a story about a woman who had memories of being adopted by a family & she was looking for them. It seemed as though as she had made up this family and it was all in her imagination. She mentioned being abused as a child & was put into a foster home & eventually ended up with this couple. She didn't seem "all there" to me.Anyone remember this case? What were the results?

wiseguy182
12-12-2014, 03:29 AM
Her name was Miriam. Her alleged adoptive parents have never been found.

justins5256
12-12-2014, 10:14 AM
I never quite knew what to make of this story. On one hand, it seemed that there was some evidence that she was suffering from false memory syndrome considering that...

- her biological mother denied that she ever was in foster care.

- no records of the court proceedings could be located.

However, there were explanations for both. It was implied that the biological mother would have had motivation for denying the foster care details giving their strained relationship. Also, Stack mentioned that some of the records from that period were destroyed.

Supposedly, there was an update some time later in which someone sent in a photograph of the alleged foster parents. I've never seen the update myself. I don't know if it was on NBC or what. I don't think this segment ever made it to Lifetime until the Farina revamp.

Hops3098
12-12-2014, 02:02 PM
Is that the case where the adoptive father was a firefighter with prematurely white hair?

MegtheEgg86
12-12-2014, 02:32 PM
Is that the case where the adoptive father was a firefighter with prematurely white hair?

Yes. I remember this detail so well because my husband has a friend with silver-white hair who's in his late 30s, so I always thought of him when picturing "Mike" in my head.

I don't at all know what to make of this story, either. I've always wanted to believe it's true, admittedly.

amandab1234
12-12-2014, 03:20 PM
Well according to this update:

http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/The_Parents_of_Miriam

They did exist and a photo was sent but not much else is mentioned