For decades, a woman in Germany searched for a missing piece of her life, the identity of her biological father. She never imagined the answer would be more than 4000, 4000 miles away right here in the Saint Louis area. — A — simple DNA test changed everything, and today inside a Saint Clair County courthouse, that long distance mystery became a family. 5 in your eye’s Laura Barcheski has the touching reunion.

For decades this little girl from Germany, Susanna Iida Frank, had no idea who her biological parents were. She was adopted at a very young age and says as a young black girl she never felt like she fit in.

She always felt like something was missing.