Kerry Needham recently received a message from a woman claiming that her husband, a man who was adopted in 1993, may be Ms. Needham’s long-lost son who went missing in 1991. She noted that the photos sent to her reveal a stark similarity to a forensic age-progression photo of her son.

A handout image provided by the www.helpfindben.co.uk campaign shows an artist impression of Ben Needham aged 21.

Her story is a tragic one: following the family’s relocation from Sheffield, England, for a “fresh start” on the island of Kos, her baby boy, named Ben, went missing at just 21 months of age on the 24th of July, 1991.

Despite a laborious investigation, the longest in British history, including two excavations on the farmland where he was last spotted, there was little success in the endeavor.

A bulldozer excavates a site during an investigation for Ben Needham, a 21-month-old British toddler who went missing in 1991, on the island of Kos, Greece, September 27, 2016.

British police and members of Hellenic Rescue Team search the ground around the farmhouse where British toddler Ben Needham disappeared on 24 July 1991 near the village of Iraklise, on the island of Kos, Greece, 04 October 2016.

Investigations at the time were also conducted by the US government, which was investigating the link between international child trafficking rings and illegal adoptions on US soil.

The woman who shared the photos noted that her husband has “always had questions about his true parentage” and had been asking his adoptive parents for his birth certificate, which they were unwilling to provide. She convinced her husband that he might be the lost child, and while stating she “doesn’t want to give false hope” to Kerry, she believes the evidence is too overwhelming to dismiss.

Kerry stated that, without wishing to be overtly hopeful, she believes that the man’s adoption, his striking similarity to the forensic images, and his American residence are too many coincidences for her to completely ignore.

The man, for his part, agreed to give a DNA sample, requesting that the results not be publicly disclosed. Kerry now awaits the results from Interpol, to be released in the coming weeks.