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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Stolen by Abby Blake ABC News Radio. "The Voice": Two Artists Stolen, One Claims She Saw Steal in a Dream. Alisan Porter & Lacy Mandigo; Tyler Golden/NBC (NEW YORK) -- The Battle Rounds continued Monday night on The Voice , as two contestants ended up being stolen. and one of them claimed she foresaw the moment in a dream. Things got underway with Blake Shelton's team, mentored by his girlfriend and former Voice coach Gwen Stefani. Blake matched Adam Wakefield and Jared Harder against each other on the Marshall Tucker Band's "Can't You See." Wakefield was much more familiar with the song -- his performance caused Adam Levine to exclaim, "That dude is great!" Adam, Christina Aguilera and Pharrell all thought Wakefield should win, and Blake agreed. Pharrell's team, mentored by Sean Diddy Combs, featured Emily Keener and Jonathan Bach duetting on Ellie Goulding's song "Explosions." Adam felt the two were equals. Christina preferred Jonathan, and Blake said he connected to Emily more. Pharrell chose Emily. Christina's team, mentored by Patti LaBelle, pitted Daniel Passo against Kristen Marie in a duet of Adele's "Turning Tables." Blake, Adam and Pharrell all felt that Daniel was better and Christina agreed, and chose him as the winner. Pharrell's next matchup was Abby Celso versus Brian Nhira on Maroon 5's "Sugar." Mentor Sean Diddy Combs worked with the two singers extensively, giving them advice about staging and emotion, and they turned in perhaps the best duet of the night. Adam, Blake and Christina all felt Brian should win, but Pharrell chose Abby. However, he also called on the coaches judges to save Brian, and Adam and Christina both pushed their buttons. Brian chose Adam as his new coach. Team Adam, mentored by Tori Kelly, pitted Caroline Burns against Mike Schiavo, singing Meghan Trainor and John Legend's duet "Like I'm Gonna Lose You." Pharrell and Christina felt Mike was the winner, while Blake chose Caroline. Adam decided Caroline, a returning contestant, should be the winner. Christina then pitted former child star Alisan Porter against Lacy Mandigo for a duet of the Mamas and the Papas' classic "California Dreaming," as recorded by Sia. You may recall that Sia was Christina's team mentor during the first season o f The Voice. All the coaches thought Alisan outsang Lacy, with Pharrell describing her as a "thunderstorm." After Christina chose Alisan as the winner, Blake stole Lacy at the very last second. Lacy, who'd caused Christina to turn her chair during the Blind Auditions at the last minute, exclaimed, "Remember that time I told you that I dreamed you were the only one who turned around? I dreamed the other night Blake saved me! I swear to God!" Christina declared Lacy to be "psychic." There were also some brief glimpses of other matchups: --Team Pharrell's Jonathan Hutchinson and Moushumi sang Ed Sheeran's "Photograph" and Moshumi won. --Team Adam's Katherine Ho and Lily Green sang "Lovefool" by the Cardigans and Katharine won. --Team Blake's Angie Keilhauer and Teresa Guidry sang "Backseat of a Greyhound Bus" by Sara Evans and Angie won. 10 Infants Who Disappeared. No unsolved mystery is more heartbreaking than the disappearance of an infant. It is an incredibly painful experience for a parent to bring a child into the world and only enjoy a limited amount of time with them before they go missing and are never heard from again. But in this type of case, at least there’s always a decent possibility that the victim is still alive. Whenever an infant is abducted, it’s often done by someone who wants to raise the child as their own, or sell the baby for the purposes of illegal adoption. The child can grow up and live a seemingly normal life without knowing that they were stolen from their real family. A recent example of this was when a 23-year-old woman named Carlina White discovered that the woman she thought was her mother had actually abducted her from a hospital when she was only 19 days old. In the end, she finally got to reunite with her biological parents. In some of the following cases, the parents themselves have been suspected of causing their child’s disappearance, but there’s always a chance these missing infants might still be alive somewhere. 10 Marlene Santana. On October 18, 1985, Francesca Santana gave birth to a little girl named Marlene at Brookdale Hospital in Brooklyn. Three days later, Francesca was viewing her newborn baby in the nursery when an unidentified Hispanic-looking woman in her late twenties started a conversation with her and commented that Marlene was the prettiest baby there. Later that night, Francesca and two of her relatives were leaving the hospital with Marlene when she was confronted outside by this same woman, who pulled a gun on them and forced them to walk six blocks to a deserted junkyard. The woman ordered Francesca to hand over the baby. After the assailant pointed her gun directly at Marlene and threatened to shoot her, Francesca complied with her demand. Francesca and her relatives barely had time to react before the woman took Marlene, jumped into a nearby car driven by an accomplice, and sped away. Authorities speculated that Marlene was either sold for adoption or that the woman responsible was unable to have children and decided to steal a baby whom she could raise as her own. Sadly, over 27 years have passed and Marlene Santana remains missing. 9 Raymond Lamar Green. Donna Green gave birth to a son named Raymond on November 1, 1978 at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. While viewing her newborn in the nursery, Donna met an African-American woman who called herself “Lisa Morris.” She claimed she was there visiting her sister, who had just given birth. Donna conversed with this woman on numerous occasions before being discharged from the hospital and taking Raymond home. On November 6, Morris made a surprise visit to Donna’s apartment, claiming she wanted to see how Raymond was doing. Donna let her in to see the baby, and since her brother Tony was also there at the time, Donna felt comfortable leaving the room to take a shower for three minutes while Morris was visiting. However, when Donna emerged from the shower, Tony claimed that Morris had taken Raymond outside after he started crying. Donna went to look for them, but was told by a neighbor that Morris had climbed into a vehicle and driven away with Raymond. After contacting the police, Donna found out the name “Lisa Morris” was false and that no one fitting her description had a sister who had given birth at that hospital. The woman’s identity remains a mystery, and unfortunately, Raymond Lamar Green’s whereabouts are still unknown. 8 Bryan Dos Santos-Gomes. In Fort Myers, Florida, on December 1, 2006, Maria de Fatima Ramos Dos Santos was waiting at the bus stop with her three-week-old son Bryan and a female friend when a Hispanic woman pulled up in an SUV asking for directions. When Maria and her friend eventually got on the bus, the woman followed them and asked for directions again after they got off at their stop. They decided to climb into the vehicle to help the woman when they were suddenly abducted. Maria took note of the fact that the SUV already had a car seat and diaper bag inside. The woman drove them to Estero and demanded $500 before dropping Maria and her friend off and driving away with Bryan. Maria and her husband, Jurandir Gomes Costa, are originally from a village in Brazil, and they paid human traffickers to smuggle them into the United States. It was initially suspected that Bryan was abducted because Jurandir had fallen behind in his payments to them. However, police soon leaned toward Bryan’s abduction being a random crime after another Fort Myers woman came forward and described a similar incident. On the day of Bryan’s abduction, she had been out walking with her infant grandchild when this same Hispanic woman pulled up in an SUV asking for directions. It’s believed that the woman might have been looking to steal a child she could raise as her own, but neither Bryan nor his abductor have ever been found. 7 Melissa McGuinn. Rebecca and Robert McGuinn lived in Trenton, New Jersey, with their seven-month-old daughter Melissa and two roommates, one of whom was 30-year-old Wanda Faye Reed. On March 6, 1988, Wanda asked Rebecca if she could take Melissa for a walk and was given permission to do so. Wanda left and returned eight minutes later with a neighbor, but Melissa was not with her. Wanda was mentally disabled and functioned at the level of a four-year-old child, so she wound up giving conflicting stories about what happened to Melissa. At first, she claimed that an unidentified African-American man knocked her down and stole the baby. Wanda then said she dropped Melissa in the Delaware River before changing her story again and claiming that the neighbor she was with had exchanged the baby for drugs. The neighbor was investigated and nothing was found to support Wanda’s accusations, and her story about the Delaware River was discounted since Wanda could not have walked there and back during the eight-minute period she was away. It was speculated that Wanda might have deliberately harmed Melissa because she was jealous of the attention she had been receiving.