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father then abducted him and allegedly abused him before vanishing from Lafayette. Later, his mother remarried Stephen L. Bailey and changed her son’s name to William Bruce Bailey.

Until he was 17, he thought Bailey was his real father. He never met his biological father as an adult; he was murdered in 1984 in Marion, Illinois.

The Bailey household was continue reading …