He said his wife and son moved to South Korea. Decades later, a detective learned the truth.
Growing up east of Cincinnati in Sardinia, Ohio, Mosteller had been close with her cousin, Robert “Bobby” Adam Whitt. Born in Michigan in January 1988, Bobby was the son of her uncle, a Caucasian male, and his wife, a Korean woman named Myoung Hwa Cho, according to
Cincinnati’s WCPO.
“I’m the oldest of three girls, and he was my only first cousin,” Mosteller recently told the Raleigh
News & Observer. “He spent a lot of time at our house, and he was the little brother that I always wanted and never had.”
Mosteller recalled Bobby as a sweet boy who loved playing video games and air hockey. “He had an air hockey table in his bedroom,” she told
ABC 11.
Mosteller’s mother, Barbara Moellmann, also fondly recalled both the boy and his mom.
“Bobby was a very brilliant little boy,” she
told WCPO. “And he was funny. He had a real dry sense of humor . . . [Myoung] was funny and fun. Literally, I’m going to have to say, probably the hardest working person that I’ve ever known in my life.”
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When Bobby was 10, the boy and his family moved to North Carolina. Not long after, the father told his family back in Ohio that he and his wife had split, and that she had taken Bobby back to her native South Korea, Mosteller said.
As an adult, Mosteller tried finding traces of her long-lost cousin online.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...d-truth/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6fb07ff95e8e
(there is great photo of Bobby and his mum attached. I have added it above but not sure if it is displaying or not as sometimes it is showing as cross instead of image and sometimes it is displaying properly)
