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Update: The AP is reporting that DNA test results have shown that John Barnes is not the same man as the toddler kidnapped on Long Island 54 years ago. Jerry Damman, the father of the missing Stephen Damman, said to reporters, "It's too bad we had to go through all of this for actually nothing in the end." The story from earlier continues below.

Ten years ago today, Camden Sylvia and Michael Sullivan left their rent-stabilized loft in downtown Manhattan, went for a jog, rented a video and were never seen again. Today, the Daily News revisits the mystery and speaks to Sylvia's mother. Laurie Sylvia says, "I want to know what happened. Each year that goes by I think, maybe this year. I never imagined I would be doing that for 10 years."

A look at some noteworthy television this week:

Swoon returns to Rivington, after her last piece there got wrecked. More at Streetsy.

The Post today has one of those stories that seems right out of that canceled-Fox drama 'Reunion.' In 1974 recent John Bronwe High School graduate Leslie Zaret was found strangled and naked in the PS 203 schoolyard in Bayside. "Her long-sleeved, flower-print blouse, bluejeans and beige platform shoes were neatly piled beside her." No arrests were ever made and the case seemed to slip away.

Stacy Horn, Writer

- A woman and her 8 year-old son seem to have been killed by her boyfriend, who used a machete. News reports wonder if the boyfriend should have even been on the streets.

Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau said, "The irony is, the case is much stronger now than the day after it happened." Morgenthau, who has been DA for over 30 years, is facing reelection this year, and Ruth Messinger just endorsed his likely opponent, Judge Leslie Crocker Snyder.

"Fed's big dig hasn't run its corpse"; apparently a cadaver dog is also on the scene!

As my jet lag is very bad, I have turned to the library at the American Club for additional reading material. I picked up A Cold Case by New Yorker writer Philip Gourevitch, who also wrote We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, a book about the Rwandan massacres. A Cold Case is about a 1970 double murder that went unsolved until the late 1990s. A pretty swift read, I recommend it to my fellow Law & Order fans.