A woman who has been missing since she was a newborn in 1980 has been discovered alive and healthy.
Shortly after moving from Florida to Texas, Holly Marie and her parents Harold Dean Clouse and Tina Clouse vanished.
The corpses of Holly Marie's parents, discovered in Texas in 1981, were identified in October 2021.
Baby Holly, on the other hand, had gone missing for a long time until she was recently discovered and definitely identified in Oklahoma.
The family who raised Holly is not being investigated as a suspect in the killings of her parents.
According to the Houston Chronicle, Harold Dean's mother Donna Casasanta has spent the last four decades looking for answers and was overjoyed to get a phone call verifying that Holly had been discovered.
"Finding Holly was a birthday present from heaven since we discovered her on Junior's birthday," Casasanta said in a statement to the Houston Chronicle sent by a family spokesman.
"I prayed for answers for more than 40 years, and the Lord has revealed some of them."
After her son moved to Texas, Casasanta got letters from him on a regular basis until they unexpectedly ended in October 1980.
Several months later, she received an anonymous phone from someone claiming to have discovered the family's automobile in California, with three women dressed in white robes driving it back to Donna in Florida.
Donna was informed by one of the ladies, who identified herself as 'Sister Susan,' that her son had joined a cult, had given up his things, and would be cutting all links with his past, including his family.
Donna told the Chronicle, "That was strange." "We were terrified, and we began seeking and searching."
A German Shepherd discovered the bones of a human arm in Harris County, Texas, in January 1981, triggering a police investigation of the region.
Two remains were discovered a week later, but it took 40 years for them to be recognized as the Clouses, thanks to advances in technology and DNA databases.
Tina had been strangled and Dean Harold had been beaten to death; both had been dead for some time when they were discovered.
Once the Clouse's bones were identified, the Texas Attorney General's Office took up the case, revealing at a news conference that infant Holly had been left off at a church in Arizona by two white robe-clad ladies claiming to be members of a nomadic religious organization.
The Texas Attorney General's Office noted in a statement to the Houston Chronicle that "the Linn and Clouse families have been looking for answers about the Clouses' and their daughter, Holly's, welfare since they were last heard from in 1980."
"Baby Holly, who is now 42 years old, has been found alive and healthy." Holly has been informed of her biological parents' names, and she has been in contact with her extended biological family, with whom she hopes to meet in person soon."
"Finding Holly was a birthday surprise from god," Donna said through a family spokeswoman. "We found her on Junior's [Dean Clouse's] birthday."
"I prayed for answers for more than 40 years, and the Lord has revealed some of them."