While their killer or killers have still not been found, the success of the hunt for Baby Holly at least brings an unexpected element of closure to a family that had long since abandoned all hope of finding answers. Two bodies were found in woodland in Harris County near Houston a year later, a male beaten to death and a female strangled, but they were not identified as the Clouses until October 2021, when the cadavers were exhumed and tested by Identifinders analysts. What is known is that carpenter Harold Dean Clouse Jr, 21, and his wife Tina Gail Linn Clouse, 17, had recently moved to the Dallas suburb of Lewisville from New Smyrna, Florida, when they disappeared 42 years ago. Officials have not yet released details about how precisely they found Holly, how she survived the murder of her parents or how she subsequently came to be adopted. I found missing Baby Holly 40 years after she vanished.Baby Holly’s grandmother reveals joyful reunion after 40-year disappearance.
‘Baby Holly’ who vanished when her parents were murdered in 1980 is found alive 40 years later.
