Slaton tried to reach Parker, who was in Missouri, on the phone and first spoke to his roommate, who told her Parker was Korean and had a twin sister named Susan. "And I'm going through all my list, and then this one person, Timothy James Parker catches my eye," Slaton said. With the new date of birth and information that Thomas' son may have the middle name James, Slaton said she checked her databases again. 'However, he did keep part of his name.' Well, that's telling me his first name, James, is now, probably, his middle name." "'James' first name's completely changed,' she said. She's like, 'Wow,' she said, 'You're right.
"Being the stubborn woman that I am, I call the agency back, 'Can you check what's known as the order of adoption?' She gets back on the phone. Buck Foundation for a third time to see what they could disclose about the adoption of Thomas' twins. With the records in hand, Slaton learned that someone in Korea had changed the twins' birth date to make them appear to be a year younger, which had made tracing them nearly impossible.Īfter two unsuccessful attempts, Slaton went back to the Pearl S. Though initially reluctant to help open the records, Jae-Im's wife convinced him to give permission for the adoption agency to release the adoption records. "She would just look over the photo albums, and her daughter-in-law said she'd just cry and just touch the photos." Make sure that they call me,'" Cho said Jae-Im told her. "She would just go to anyone in the neighborhood and say, 'If you see any twins, Korean-American twins, looking for Mrs.
Jae-Im told Cho that his mother regretted the adoption until the day she died. "When I told her the name of Pae Seong-eun, and she had twins and, you know, there was this whole story on Facebook, I got a feeling that she knew who I was talking about, but she wouldn't admit it," Cho told "20/20." "She said, 'Only siblings have rights to ask for it.' She gave me that hint."Ĭho found Connie's other son Jae-Im, whom Thomas had adopted in the '60s. The post was shared over one million times, catching the attention of ABC News’ “20/20,” who enlisted the help of investigative genealogist Pam Slaton and ABC News’ Seoul Bureau Chief Joohee Cho. This April, Thomas, who lives in Mossyrock, Washington, posted photos and documents on Facebook asking for help finding his twins. But because of privacy laws, Thomas was not given any other information. Buck Foundation, which helped support Asian-American children, that Connie had put the twins up for adoption and that they were adopted into the U.S. He found out in the early '80s through the U.S. They did everything they could with the resources that they had, but always seemed to run into roadblocks," Charlene Thomas told "20/20." "My mom had helped my dad search for so long. They also had a third son together, but he never forgot about his children in Korea. He adopted both of them, daughter, Charlene, and son, Scott. In the years that followed, Thomas divorced Connie in absentia and married Polly Paquin, a high school friend who already had two children. Thomas said he continued to write to Connie for years asking about the twins, but eventually the letters were returned without a forwarding address.
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