BOGOTA — Three-year-old Jhonatan was playing with his brother Alfonso in their garden in western Bogota on Sept. 25, 1987, when a family friend approached, inviting him to buy candy.
Jhonatan went with the man, vanishing without a trace for 32 years.
Older brother Juan Jimenez, then 5, was looking out the window when the man took his brother and grew up with his mother Ana’s grief over the disappearance.
Years later, in 1994, the man came to the house and alleged the boys’ stepfather had asked him to take the child. He said – falsely – that Jhonatan had been adopted in the United States.
Juan vowed to find his brother.
“That was the obsession for me,” said Juan, who move…
Keep on reading: Colombian man’s search for missing brother ends in joy after 32 years