steff13
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I've been off for a while, so sorry if I'm blowing up the thread. The thing that sticks out to me is it seems that Joseph did live with his mother. But, it also seems like his mother was pretty close to her family. It seems unlikely that she could have successfully hidden a child from her family for four years, but if they knew about him, why didn't they ask questions when he was suddenly gone? And more importantly, why didn't they say something when his picture was being plastered all over the city? I get circling the wagons when it comes to family, but I don't believe that many people could have kept that secret so successfully for over 60 years.
Which leads me to believe maybe he was given up for adoption, either formally or informally, but the information we do have doesn't really support that either.
Are we certain the the baby born in 1956 was her husband's? If they married later, why wouldn't they have married while she was pregnant? That would have been the "done thing" in the 1950s. Is there possibly another guy in between JAZ and the husband? Maybe not a very nice guy?
Which leads me to believe maybe he was given up for adoption, either formally or informally, but the information we do have doesn't really support that either.
Are we certain the the baby born in 1956 was her husband's? If they married later, why wouldn't they have married while she was pregnant? That would have been the "done thing" in the 1950s. Is there possibly another guy in between JAZ and the husband? Maybe not a very nice guy?