LOST BABY FOUND 40 YEARS AFTER PARENTS’ MURDER
Killer cult abandoned girl who got adopted
FOUR decades after a baby girl vanished without a trace in Texas during the brutal murders of her parents — who had ties to a mysterious cult — DNA sleuths found the child all grown up, alive and well in Oklahoma!
The missing infant, long known as Baby Holly, is now a 42-year-old married mother of five! The Lone Star State’s attorney general’s office says DNA tracing helped locate the gal and reconnect her with her biological family.
“Finding Holly is a birthday present from heaven since we found her on her father’s birthday,” says overjoyed grandma Donna Casasanta. “I prayed for answers for more than 40 years.”
Tina Gail Linn, 17, and Harold Dean Clouse Jr.,
21, Holly’s birth parents, moved from Florida to Texas with their only child shortly before all three disappeared in 1980.
Two corpses, believed to be the tragic newlyweds, were found in a wooded area near Houston in 1981 — but there was no sign of Holly. However, the bodies weren’t positively identified as the Clouses until last year when DNA evidence confirmed authorities’ suspicions.
Sources say Dean was beaten to death, and Tina was strangled.
“Baby Holly was left at a church in Arizona,” explains Texas First Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster.
“Two women who identified themselves as members of a nomadic religious group brought Holly to the church. They were wearing white robes and they were barefoot.”
According to Webster, the cult believed in the separation of male and female members, practiced vegetarianism and avoided leather goods.
The Texas AG’s office says someone calling herself Sister Susan told the Clouses’ relatives Tina and Dean were cutting ties with their families and giving up their possessions — before asking for cash in exchange for the couple’s car!
Lawmen say Holly’s adoptive parents are not suspects in their ongoing murder investigation.