Missing Chicago toddler emerges after three decades Now only able to speak Spanish Mr Amaya has spoken to his mother, Kathy, on the phone after resurfacing in San Diego, California. However he was admitted after his birth certificate was found. It showed he had been born in Chicago, Illinois in 1976. "My father told me my mother had left me abandoned and orphaned," he told the KNSD via an interpreter. I don't know my mother and I find out she's been looking for me for 30 years and I have the longing to meet her for the first time. Now in San Diego, he is hoping to raise enough money to visit his mother and four siblings in Wisconsin.