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🗓️ 20 January 2025
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On the night of December 15th, 1997, a fire broke out in the home of Luz Cuevas and Pedro Vera, a couple living in Philadelphia with their two young sons and their ten-day-old daughter, Delimar. She was asleep upstairs. In the aftermath, the fire was declared the result of faulty wiring. No trace of baby Delimar was ever found — she was presumed dead; “completely consumed by the fire”, according to the medical examiner’s report. Naturally, her parents were devastated, but there would be no closure because this was just the start of Delimar's story. In circumstances almost too extraordinary to believe, Delimar was alive and being raised only 20 kilometres or so across town. She had been renamed Aaliyah, and lived with Carolyn, a woman she thought was her mother. Delimar has made a documentary about her extraordinary experience called Back From the Dead: Who Kidnapped Me?
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0:56.6 | I'm Mabinazar, and this is the story of a mysterious fire, a missing baby, and a secret |
1:02.5 | that would rip two families apart. On the night of December 15, 1997, a fire broke out in the home of Luz Cuevas and Pedro Vira, |
1:23.0 | a couple living in Fentonville, North Philadelphia, with their two young sons and their 10-day-old |
1:28.7 | daughter, Delamar. She was asleep upstairs. In the aftermath, the fire was declared the result |
1:34.7 | of faulty wiring. No trace of baby Delamar was ever found. She was presumed dead, completely |
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