<P> Nine years later a young boy named Sam asks Beth if she needs the lawn mowed . Beth suspects that this boy who lives with his `` father '' two blocks away is in fact her lost son , and while Sam mows the lawn , she takes photographs of him to show to her husband and teenage son , who then says that he suspected the boy 's true identity all along . The parents contact Detective Candy Bliss who pops in to offer wise , albeit often cryptic and conflicting , advice to Beth . It is learned that at the reunion in Chicago , the celebrity alumna Cecil Lockhart kidnapped Ben , renamed him Sam , and raised him as her own child until she was committed to a mental hospital , leaving Sam to be raised in a house only two blocks from the Cappadoras , by his adoptive father , the sensitive and intellectual George Karras . </P>
who kidnapped ben in the deep end of the ocean
the celebrity alumna Cecil Lockhart