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*Originally Published in 2014* You might have heard about our little family mystery. After my husband, Bill Atkinson, was found as a newborn infant in a phone booth at 7-Eleven in Kansas City in 1972, the mystery began. Who had left him there? Why had they done it? And would the mystery ever be solved? As we’ve been researching his case, we were lucky to receive coverage in the Kansas City Star recently, which launched a series of emails and phone calls that would bring us in contact with several people who wanted to help. One of them, Officer Bill Howard, said he was the officer who arrived on the scene the day he was found and actually pulled him out of the phone booth. We called him back several days ago and learned some new details about that day and about what he thought of the case. What He Found That Day at 7-Eleven June 7, 1972 was a warm, spring-like day that started off just like any other one for Kansas City police officer Bill Howard when he received the call that would change the lives of several people, including, in some ways, himself. Howard said that he was a little outside of his usual patrol area when he got the call that there was an abandoned baby in a phone booth at a 7-Eleven on Metropolitan Avenue. When he showed...