Son puts end to mother's 17-year ordeal
A mother's 17-year-long search for her son who authorities say was taken by his father is over after the grown-up son apparently saw a newspaper story about himself and convinced the man to turn himself in.
Stephen Palacios was held yesterday on charges of interference with child custody. He and his son went to a lawyer's office in Houston, Texas, on Thursday where the father surrendered.
Deputy US Marshal Alfredo Perez said Palacios would remain in custody and he believed the son, also called Stephen, was staying with family members.
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Hide AdPalacios was living in Waco when he and his wife Dee Ann divorced and the father and son disappeared in 1993.
Dee Ann Adams, who has since remarried, said authorities told her that her son saw an August 29 Waco Tribune-Herald story about his disappearance and insisted that his father surrender.