She was abandoned as a newborn. Now she’s on a mission to solve 33-year-old mystery.

Barbara Robinson, 83 holds an old newspaper clipping from 1986 at her home in Pompano Beach on Thursday. In 1986 she discovered a newborn baby in her van. The baby was taken to a nearby hospital and later adopted by Robinson’s niece. Nearly 34 years later, the woman who was abandoned, Toraisa Joseph, is on a quest to find out more information about her birth parents. (Mike Stocker / South Florida Sun Sentinel)