The Name She Was Given : A Stolen Child and the Bear Brook Barrels
Overview
In November 1985, a hunter in the New Hampshire woods found a steel drum holding a woman and a girl no one could name.
That same year, three thousand miles away, a four-year-old was travelling the back roads of California with a man she called her father. He wasn't her father, and the name on his papers wasn't his.
She did not know her birthday, her mother's face or the town where she was born. When he handed her to strangers at an RV park and vanished, everything he left behind was false: his name, his story, even the number on his job application.
For thirty years, two investigations ran blind to each other. In Allenstown, detectives tried to identify the unnamed dead, while a second barrel lay overlooked three hundred feet from the first. In California, a girl grew into a woman who kept asking the same question: who was I before him?
The Name She Was Given follows her from a childhood of motel rooms and borrowed names to the moment a DNA test and a family tree gave back the name she was born with. That answer tied her to the Bear Brook case and exposed one of the most elusive killers in American history. It is a story about stolen identity and the people who never reported the missing. It also follows the volunteers and scientists who refused to let the dead stay nameless, and the two mothers who have still not been found.
Drawn from the public record, with the names of private individuals changed and the survivor's experience told through informed dramatization.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798167227132
- ISBN-10: 9798167227132
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: November 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.71 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
- Page Count: 340
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