A 1980 photo of Tina Linn Clouse and Harold Clouse with their young daughter. Months later, the three abruptly disappeared, the parents were murdered and a dramatic story began.
After a dizzying romance and pregnancy, Harold Dean Clouse and Tina Linn Clouse they married in June 1979. In 1980 the couple disappeared and their families became desperate because they were parents of a small girl. In 1981 the remains of two bodies such as NN were found, but nothing was known about the child. The story had an unexpected ending this Thursday.
In January 1981, the United States was shocked by the news that a dog who had wandered into a Texas woods he was back with a human arm in the mouth. This was the first point for the local police to later discover a man who was beaten to death and a woman who had been strangled. They were the Clouses and today, 42 years later, they can rest in peace.
Is that this Thursday the US authorities identified a woman from 42 years old as the couple’s daughter in Florida killed four decades ago, the Texas Attorney General announced Thursday, Ken Paxton. She was legally listed as missing, but everyone imagined a bloody end for her too.
Tina Linn Clouse was strangled to death in a Texas forest. Her remains were only identified in 2021.
“Little Holly Marie”, since Clouse’s daughter has been identified, has been tracked down, is well and is now 42 years old, specifies a note from the Prosecutor’s Office. The woman lives in Oklahoma, where a family adopted her as a child. Investigators will now track that adoption to see if they can find the couple’s killers
His parents passed away in 1980 and months later the remains of two people were found in a wooded area of Houston (Texas), which turned out to be those of the couple, as they were identified thanks to the use of new genetic technology.
In 2021 the bodies were exhumed from “International identifiers”a California-based organization that focuses on genetic genealogy for the police. allison peacockwho worked with the operations and genealogical team, then called the Clouse family and confirmed that the couple were Dean and Tina. However, his daughter, Hollie, was never found.
Donna Casasanta got the call this week, a call she spent half her life praying for: her niece Holly Marie Clouse showed up alive.
Paxton’s office said after that discovery, the couple’s families learned that the two bodies found in Houston They were those of Tina and Dean, and investigations began to establish what had happened to the girl, whose remains had not been found.
“Holly has already been notified the identity of their biological relatives and he has already been in contact via zoom with his extended biological family and hopes to meet them in person soon, “the prosecutor said.
John Bischoffof the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC, in English), said he was thrilled because “now Holly will have the opportunity to connect with her biological family who has been looking for it for so long.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced contact with “Baby Holly” Clouse, whom he has not heard of for more than 40 years.
Donna Casasanta, Holly’s grandmother, He said he had prayed for more than 40 years for an answer “and the Lord revealed part of it, we found Holly.” Casasanta reports the disappearance of her son in 1981 after months without communications. His son had said so he had joined a religious cult in recent years and that the police thought he and his partner had escaped with that sect.
Shery Linn Green, Holly’s mother’s sister, said she believes that “Tina is finally resting in peace knowing that her Holly will be reunited with her family. It’s a relief to know that Holly is alive. And they took care of her. “
With information from EFE and USA Today
Source: Clarin
