Illinois - An investigation by the FBI has revealed that a Chicago man named John Robert Barnes is not the missing toddler who went missing from his mother’s stroller more than 50 years ago.

The man had come forward, claiming that he could actually be Stephen Damman, a 2 year old taken in Long Island, but DNA tests have proved him not to be the missing child.

Barnes insisted that growing up, things just did not feel right, and thought that that could be because he was not who he thought he was.

Pictures of him as a child do indeed resemble the missing youngster, a fact that further strengthened his belief that he actually was Damman.

“It’s too bad we had to go through all of this for actually nothing in the end,” said Stephen’s father, Jerry Damman.

When Stephen went missing a massive man hunt was initiated but the little boy simply vanished without a trace.