45 years later he renounced son, the woman learns that he died in Lockerbie bombing

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Police and investigators look at what remains of the Pan Am 103 flight deck in a field in Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 22, 1988.

By Tracy Connor, writer, NBC News

For 45 years, Carol King-Eckersley fulfilled a promise not seek the child who had been given up for adoption when he was just a teenager, but that changed when her husband died last year and he decided to look for his son.

She knew his name and date of birth, and easily found a reference to it on the Internet — his enthusiasm soon turned to horror as he became aware that was on a page for the victims of the bombing of flight 103, Pan Am over Lockerbie, Scotland.

"So I became a kind of double tragedy," King Eckersley, 45, told a BBC documentary. "He found it and lost it on the same day."

The widow of Oregon was the daughter of 19 years of age from a school principal when she got pregnant and felt under pressure to give up her baby.

The only time that he never saw the child who became Kenneth Bissett was the day that was in the car from the lawyer who organized the adoption, as he left a hospital in New York City.

"There was this little bundle wrapped in the seat front and everything that occurred to me, all the way from Queens in New York in the middle of Manhattan, was 'no llores'", said the BBC.

"I knew that if was crying that he could not do it." I never had it, but now I have to cry for him."

She had promised not to contact him or to interfere in your life, and stayed to until last April, when he made the surprising discovery that had been dead for nearly 25 years.

Bissett was a junior at the University of Cornell 21 years enrolled in the program of study abroad at the University of Syracuse in London when he boarded the flight 103 to New York on December 21, 1988.

A terrorist bomb had made pieces of the aircraft, killing all aboard.

"There was always hope and dream that one day come a blow in the door and opened it and there would be this high handsome gentleman saying: 'Hi, I think you're my mom,'", said the King-Eckersley. "When I saw it in my computer it was as if someone had come to light because that hope was gone."

"I'm still in its semi numb after you lose someone you love", added. "Although I did not have it with me physically, he was always in my heart. I've thought of it practically every day."

The adoptive parents of Bissett had already died and when Syracuse conducted a 25th anniversary Memorial to students killed in October, King-Eckersley attended.

"Was a feeling amazing for me to be included and I feel like Ken and others were guiding the issue in some way," he said in the documentary.

Florida teen gets 25 years in prison for attempting to murder transgender woman

  By Simon Moya-Smith, Staff Writer, NBC NewsA teenager in Tampa, Fla., was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday for the attempted murder of a transgender woman, officials said.Tavares Spencer, 16, was convicted in October for shooting Terrence McDonald, a man Spencer believed was a woman.Tampa Police said in April that Spencer was so irate when he learned McDonald was a man that he lured McDonald into a vacant house and shot him, NBC station WFLA reported.McDonald told police that after being shot in the hip, he played dead and watched Spencer flee. But when he stood up, Spencer witnessed McDonald's movement and shot him again.Cora Keaton, Spencer's grandmother who was at Friday's sentencing, pleaded with the judge and said her grandson didn't grow up with a father and lacked a male role model. She said he still has the potential to be "different.""My grandson has a very good heart. He's funny. He's kindhearted. He has a problem," Keaton said.Spencer also spoke at the sentencing and claimed the situation has brought him closer to God."I just pray for mercy. I asked God to forgive me and I feel in my heart he forgave me and I just want help," he said. "I know my actions won't go unpunished. I know that. I just feel like I need help. I feel like I need another chance."Spencer also begged for forgiveness from family members in the courtroom."I want to apologize to the victim and the victim's family. And I want to apologize to my family for causing pain," he said.The judge ruled that Spencer has demonstrated a progressive pattern of criminal behavior and sentenced him to 25 years, WFLA reported.Spencer's dad, who is currently incarcerated, is slated for release next month.

Woman found living 'normal life' in Australia 19 years after abduction as an infant in SC

a Center for Missing and Exploited ChildrenSavanna Catherine Todd as she would have appeared at age 16 in a computer rendering.By M. Alex Johnson, Staff Writer, NBC NewsAn infant girl who was abducted in South Carolina 19 years ago has been found living a "normal life" in Australia, authorities said, and her mother faces federal kidnapping and other charges.Savanna Catherine Todd, now 20, of Isle of Palms, S.C., disappeared in April 1994 as her parents were in the middle of a bitter divorce battle. Until earlier this month, she hadn't been seen since, William Nettles, the U.S. attorney for South Carolina, said in a statement.The statement gave few details, saying only that Todd "has been located and found to be safe, healthy and otherwise living a normal life" and that her mother, Dorothy Lee Barnett, was arrested Nov. 4 in Australia.Barnett — who is now 53 and had been living in Queensland under the aliases Alexandria Maria Canton and Alexandria Maria Geldenhuys — was denied bond Wednesday and was ordered extradited to the United States. No hearing date was entered.A grand jury indictment unsealed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Charleston charges Barnett with one count of international parental kidnapping and two counts of making false statements in passport applications when she sought to return to the U.S. in 2003 and 2004. She faces up to 23 years in prison if convicted.According to police and missing persons records from the original investigation, Savanna was 9 months old when she vanished on April 24, 1994. Her father, Harris Todd, a prominent developer in Kentucky and South Carolina, had custody, but Barnett was allowed supervised weekends of visitation.During one of those visits, Barnett persuaded the visitation supervisor to let her take Savanna to a birthday party unescorted, according to case records. The two never returned.In court documents filed in the divorce proceedings, Todd alleged that Barnett drank heavily while she was pregnant with Savanna and that she had a bipolar disorder for which she refused to seek treatment.Over the years, Barnett had been reported spotted in Texas, Australia, Switzerland, South Africa, Belize and Mexico. Nettles' statement gave no details about how Barnett was eventually found, but it specifically thanked the Australian Federal Police for its assistance.Watch US News crime videos on NBCNews.com

Woman killed in first walk after motorcycle accident

Shomari Stone, NBCWashington.comSally Ann Okuly survived cancer. And he survived a motorcycle accident six months ago, feels it sufficiently well to leave the House last week for the first time in half a year.But his determination was no match for a car on Sunday morning. Okuly was run over by a car and killed when he left his Woodbridge, Virginia House for the first time, to cross the street to your favorite store and buy a newspaper and a cup of coffee.Police say that a car driven by Amanda styles-Mays, 24, crashed into Okuly as she crossed in Opitz Boulevard and Montgomery Avenue. Okuly was crossing with the light and was in the crosswalk.Styles-Mays has been charged with failure to yield to a pedestrian and reckless driving."One of her favorite to make things was to walk on that front Wawa gas station," said her husband, Bill Okuly, who still struggles with his emotions when he speaks of his wife.Sally Ann was also a mother of two children. The couple - who were members of the motorcycle club Rolling Thunder - was created to celebrate their anniversary 41 on Monday."She's the most generous in the world person," said Bill Okuly.However, he said, feels that his wife will always remain with him. "Oh yes, she will always be there," said Bill Okuly.