A woman has sensationally claimed she is a missing child who vanished more than 20 years ago at just three years old.
Diamond Bradley was just three when she and her sister, 10-year-old Tionda, were reported missing to police in July 2001.
The girls' mother, Tracey Bradley, was out at work, but when she returned home on July 6, she walked into a silent home.
She found a mysterious note, allegedly written by Tionda, saying the sisters were going out to the store and a playground. Despite extensive searches, with the FBI involved, the sisters were never seen again.
Now, the family has new hope as a woman has claimed in a TikTok video to be Diamond. In the video, a woman searches through photos of the missing children, before being asked to show a scar on her face.
"Here with Diamond Bradley, this is Diamond Bradley can I see your scar?" asks the person behind the camera. "She still has that scar."
Diamond, who was from Chicago and would be 25 in 2023, is said to have a scar on the left side of her scalp, according to the FBI. The scar was as a result of an injury, and the woman in the video is said to have a scar in a similar area.
The Bradley family has said the woman claiming to be Diamond did take a DNA test, which will ultimately determine if she is who she's claiming to be.
Diamond and Tionda's great aunt spoke to CBS 2 about the latest claim, saying they'd been down this road before many times - but there was something different about this claim.
"I got to see this video. I'm looking at this video, like, what is this?" said great aunt Sheliah Bradley Smith.
The video in question is a 20-second TikTok video of the woman - from Houston, Texas - claiming to be Diamond. The woman in the video got in contact with Sheliah, but she hesitated.
"Look, I'm not the police - call the police," she told the woman.
See the TikTok video here:
Over the last 20 years there's been no shortage of people claiming to be the missing girls. "We've had about 12 - but easily dismissible", said Sheliah.
But in almost 22 years since the girls vanished, the woman in the video has done something nobody else has ever done. "I've never known or experienced somebody so eager to tear down the doors of the FBI to prove who they are," said Sheliah.
"So that gives me a different dynamic of hope. All I can do is hope it's her."
Chicago FBI agents got in contact with Sheliah, letting her know they'd taken a DNA test and fingerprints from the woman claiming to be Diamond. "The only thing I can say is the DNA shall tell the truth", she said.
When she reached out to Sheliah, the young woman in the video said she couldn't recall much - including where her older sister Tionda was.
"She said: 'Well, I kind of remember her, but I remember we were in [a] car. Then one day I woke up once they got us to the place we were or wherever we were living. I never seen her again'," Sheliah added.
The woman told Sheliah she had recently escaped from whoever was holding her against her will. For Sheliah, she's just comforted knowing Chicago is waiting just as anxiously as her and the family to bring the sisters home.
"The world - especially Chicago - has embraced these girls, and they hae not forgotten about them," she said. "And I thank them. I thank everybody."
