November 2006, Fort Myers, Florida. Newborn Brian Dost Santos-Gomes was out with his mother,

her friend and her friend's infant baby. They were waiting for a bus to take them home from

a hospital checkup. This is when a woman in a black SUV pulled up beside them to ask for directions.

She was lost and trying to get to her mother's home. Believing the best and wanting to help

the distressed woman, Maria, her friend and the two babies got inside the woman's car to guide her to a destination.

Little did they know they were headed towards a nightmare that would never end, and baby Brian would be abducted never to be seen again.

This is Brian's story.

Brian Dost Santos Gomes was born November 3, 2006, to parents' 23-year-old Maria

de Fatima Ramos Dos Santos and 26-year-old Herendia Gomes Costa.

Maria and Herendia were illegal immigrants from a small village in Brazil.

In 2004, Maria and Herendia decided they want to make better lives for themselves before they had children.

But given their limited options,

they chose a dangerous route to move to the United States to chase the Great American Dream.

They would pay human smugglers, or coyotes, as Maria and Herendia would later call them in media

interviews. They would pay these coyotes to transport them illegally

into the United States. Now, in general, how this transaction works. Before you leave your

original home, you pay the smugglers half the agreed upon money. Then when you get to wherever you

wanted to go, you pay them the second half.

And that's exactly what Maria believed had happened. But for whatever reason, after the couple

arrived in Fort Myers, a working class neighbourhood in southwest Florida, her India, did not

pay the smugglers the rest of what was owed.

From what I understand, it was a few hundred dollars.

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