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A MYSTERY surrounding the origins of a baby who was found dumped in a phone booth more than 60 years ago has finally been solved.

In January 1954 two bread delivery men discovered the abandoned baby while they were on their rounds in Lancaster, Ohio.

After seeing something move in the phone booth, Robert Wilson Sr and Robert Wilson Jr decided to check out what was going on and found the two-month-old baby boy dumped in a box with a blanket and a bottle of milk.

The discovery made the front pages at the time and the baby became known as either ‘booth baby’ or ‘little boy blue-eyes’.

But after 64 years the mystery of the origin of the baby has finally been solved.

The baby was eventually called Steve after being adopted by Stanley and Vivian Dennis when he was three and he grew up in Arizona.

Steve joined the Peace Corps and became a chiropractor before getting married and having two daughters.

Although Steve always knew he was adopted he was never bothered to find out about his natural parents but his children, now teenagers, pushed him to found out more about their family history.

Steve told the Lancaster Eagle Gazette: “They’re always really curious about, ‘Dad, you know, where are you from? You know, like, what is your heritage?'"

He decided to do a DNA test and eventually found a first cousin who said they knew who his mother was.

He said: "He wrote an email to me and said, 'You know, I think I know who your mother is. We’ve heard throughout our lives that there was a baby we were related to who was left in a telephone booth, just kind of like a hidden secret.’"

Steve then discovered he had a half-sister, who said his birth mother was still alive and living in Baltimore.

She had been just 18 when she gave birth to Steve but his father told his mother he would only marry her if she got rid of the baby.

The woman did as he asked, leaving her tot in the telephone booth but then the man eventually disappeared.

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She eventually moved on and went on to marry another man and they had two daughters together.

Steve is now planning to go and visit his birth mother for the first time later this month.

He said: "Whatever she feels comfortable saying to me, I’ll take. It’s more than I had before.

"My true parents, of course, were my adoptive parents. It would be almost impossible for me to think otherwise."

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