PONTIAC, Mich. -- It's a bittersweet Mother's Day for a 53-year-old Michigan woman.
Her daughter, who disappeared as an infant 30 years ago, has been found living in Arizona. So has her former husband, who is jailed and charged with kidnapping.
On Mother's Day weekend in 1976, Laura Gooder's estranged husband, Eric Douglas Nielsen, picked up 21-month-old Genevieve for an overnight visit. They never returned.
After her daughter's disappearance, Gooder remarried and had three sons.
The Detroit News reported Gooder's daughter had been raised under another name and grew up believing her mother was killed in an auto accident. She's now 31 and has a child of her own. According to authorities, she's "devastated" by the revelations.
Eric Nielsen is jailed in Arizona under a different identity on an unrelated charge. A tip led police there. He's been wanted on a Michigan kidnapping warrant since 1976.
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