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The child of two parents who were barbarically killed 40 years ago in Texas, USA has been located and is in good health, the US state prosecutor said today.
“Baby Holly” Crouse, now 42, was not found with the bodies of her parents at the scene of the 1981 murder. The couple were only identified in 2021 using DNA tests.
At a news conference, Texas police said today they are “happy” she is OK, but investigations are ongoing to find the perpetrators of her parents’ murders.
The mystery surrounding the event has led officials to suspect that those responsible may belong to a mysterious religious cult.
Tina Gail Linn Clouse and Harold Dean Clouse had settled in Florida, Texas shortly before they were found dead in a wooded area near the city of Houston.
Just last year their identities were confirmed by the ‘Identifiers International’ group, the police and missing children center in Florida and Arizona.
The Texas prosecutor’s statement also announced that the old criminal case had a development with the finding of ‘baby Holly’ after 42 years.
She already lives in Oklahoma, and is the mother of five children, but authorities did not provide further details to protect her privacy.
Ms. Crouse had first learned of her identity when police came to visit her workplace, on the day that would have been her father’s 63rd birthday.
The woman’s grandmother called the news of her niece’s discovery a “birthday present from heaven”, police announced.
Speaking to reporters yesterday, Texas prosecutor Brent Webster said the girl was then brought to church in Arizona by two women.
He added that her adoptive parents who had raised Holly are not suspected of involvement in the killings.
“The two women identified themselves as members of a nomadic group of believers who had brought Holly to church,” he said.
“They were wearing white and barefoot.”
Members of the religious group said they believed in the division between men and women, in vegetarianism and the avoidance of leather goods, Webster added.
They added that they had previously left another baby near a laundry.
Webster said one of the women called herself “Sister Susan” and had contacted the families of both victims in 1980 or 1981, telling her that the couple had joined their group and relinquished all material possessions.
Miss Crouse is expected to travel to Florida soon to join her mother and father’s family.
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