Germantown with his wife before moving back to Phoenix. Blair died in December 1943 still claiming that he was Ross. Gustave Blair's victory in the Maricopa County courtroom was met with considerable skepticism but was reported at the time to have solved the disappearance of Charley Ross. In 2011, in a study commissioned by descendants of the family Blair claimed had raised him after he was kidnapped, Y-DNA evidence determined it did not. Using chain of custody procedures, DNA was collected from a male descendant of each of two suspected brothers, Harrison Miller and Nelson Miller (aka Gustave Blair). DNA analysis determined they had a “99.99903% probability of kinship” meaning they were in fact brothers. They shared the same paternal linage, a perfect 37/37 7-STR marker match. Gustave Blair was a Miller, Nelson Miller. He could not have been Charley Ross. The case, and in particular the fates of Mosher, Douglas, and Westervelt, served as a deterrent to other potential ransom kidnappers: it would be a quarter of a century before another high-profile ransom kidnapping case emerged with Edward Cudahy Jr. in 1900. The common admonition "don't take candy from strangers" is said to have come from Ross's abduction. The Charley Project, a major missing persons database, is named for Ross. While waiting for President Franklin D. Roosevelt to appear at the 1936 Democratic National Convention concluding at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, newspaper columnist H.L. Mencken noted a prank had been played on a public address announcer by someone getting him to continually summon a "Charles Ross" to the press area. See also List of people who disappeared References Bibliography Carrie Hagen, we is got him: The Kidnapping that Changed America (The Overlook Press, 2011) Christian Ross, The Father's Story of Charley Ross, the Kidnapped Child (John E. Potter, 1876) Ernest Kahlar Alix, Ransom Kidnapping in America, 1874–1974: The Creation of a Capital Crime (Southern Illinois University Press, 1978 Louis Solomon, Great Unsolved Crimes (Scholastic Book Services, 1976) Norman Zierold, Little Charley Ross (Little, Brown & Company, 1967) William H. Westervelt (Defendant), E. E. Barclay Life, trial and conviction of William H. Westervelt, for the abduction of little Charley Ross ... (Barclay & Co., Philadelphia, 1877) External links Article at UShistory.org "Bring Back Our Darling" sheet music cover and sheet music Christian Ross, The Father's Story of Charley Ross, the Kidnapped Child (John E. Potter, 1876) Book at Archive.org "I