Update: After this story aired on Channel 7, part of the mystery was solved.
Martin Hill caught the story on Action News and says it stirred up memories from four decades ago.
Back then, he worked at the Salvation Army in Romulus with a truck driver who made an incredible discovery: a baby boy abandoned in a donation box.
It was November 1976 and the baby eventually ended up getting adopted.
Sadly, the driver who found Tim passed away more than 20 years ago.
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Original story:
A 40-year-old man is looking for the men who rescued him from a Salvation Army donation box when he was a newborn.
Tim Smith says he knew he was adopted, but on Memorial Day, the woman he calls mom told him another story she felt he needed to know.
According to his mother, in November 1976, someone called the Salvation Army to let them know the donation box at the old Kmart on Eureka Road in Southgate was full.
Three men were sent to empty the box. They thought they heard a cat, but it was a newborn baby in a paper bag.
"They said I was so cold and frost bitten that I really couldn't even cry. They placed me under a heater in the truck to kind of thaw me out until the ambulance got there," Smith says.
He was found with no records.
The nurses named him Joe Louis because he was a fighter, the court made his birthday November 20, 1976.
Smith is a father and soon-to-be husband.
He owns the Soundscape Studio & School for the Recording Arts.
He wants to thank the three men that saved him and possibly find his birth mother.
"More than anything, I'd love to shake those drivers' hands. Those gentleman in the truck, that family or perhaps even talk to relatives that might be able to shed some light on it too, but I'm really thankful," Smith says.
Smith says he tried getting a report from police and they said they no longer have it in their system.
