‘Baby Holly’ discovered safe more than 40 years after her parents’ supposed death

• Holly Marie Clouse, now 42, has been found alive and well.
• She was declared missing in the 1980s when her parents were allegedly murdered.
• Officials used genetic genealogy to definitively identify her parents, murder victims Tina Gail Linn Clouse and Harold Dean Clouse Jr.

A youngster called “Baby Holly” after going missing in the 1980s when her parents were allegedly murdered in Texas has been recovered alive.

Officials claimed that Holly Marie Clouse, now 42, was found “living and healthy” just months after utilizing genetic genealogy to definitively identify her parents,  murder victims Tina Gail Linn Clouse and Harold Dean Clouse Jr.

“She has been informed of her biological parents’ names and has been in contact with her extended biological family; they expect to meet in person soon.”

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The murderers were discovered presumably slain and abandoned in a rural area of Houston, Texas, in 1981.

She was a newborn at the time, was never recovered, and was declared missing for decades.

“I begged for answers for more than 40 years, and the Lord has revealed some of it… we discovered Holly,” she added. “Thank you so much to everyone who worked so hard to find Holly. I prayed for them every day, hoping that they would locate Holly and that she would be okay.”