Found Alive TX - Holly Marie Clouse, 11 mths, Lewisville, 6 Jan 1981 (Located Jun'22)

[Jenesaisquoi]

I can’t see the presser as I am in UK.

Was she always known as Holly or has she spent most of her life with a different first name?

 

[JoeFromLB]

Two women wearing white robes, barefoot, vegetarian, believed in separation of men and women.

This sounds familiar. I can't recall the name of this cult but I'm sure it's been in the news before.

 

[JoeFromLB]

I can’t see the presser as I am in UK.

Was she always known as Holly or has she spent most of her life with a different first name?

I don't think that was addressed.

No questions were taken after the statement from the attorney general's office.

 

[Shamrock1]

Two women wearing white robes, barefoot, vegetarian, believed in separation of men and women.

This sounds familiar. I can't recall the name of this cult but I'm sure it's been in the news before.

It describes multiple cults, unfortunately. Some Abrahamic and some not.

 

[Friday Fan]

I can’t see the presser as I am in UK.

Was she always known as Holly or has she spent most of her life with a different first name?

I don't know how or why, but the Daily Mail always seems to be first with the details:

Baby of couple murdered and dumped in woods found ALIVE after 40 years

Holly Marie Clouse, now 42, lives in Oklahoma and has five children. Her biological parents were found dead in Texas in 1981. It is unclear what happened to Holly after her parents were killed.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[formerlyme]

just wow, so many questions.... I cannot imagine her emotions right now, to find out her parents had been brutally murdered, to suddenly have new relatives. Just wow.

 

[formerlyme]

"The child born Holly Marie Clouse in 1980 has been found alive and well! The Clouse and Linn families are overjoyed and deeply grateful to the Texas Attorney General’s Office Cold Case and Missing Persons Unit, Lewisville Police Department, Harris County Sheriff’s Office, Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, Arizona Attorney General’s Office, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children for the collaborative and coordinated efforts that resulted in their reunion with Holly.

More to come throughout the day."

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https://www.facebook.com/WhereIsHollyMarie/photos/a.102955045535782/168043259026960

Attorney General Paxton’s Cold Case and Missing Persons Unit Locates Woman who has Been Missing for Over 40 Years, Shortly After Creating the Unit

In 1981, two deceased individuals, who were the apparent victims of a homicide, were discovered in a wooded area in Houston, Texas, and their identities could not be determined at that time.

www.texasattorneygeneral.gov

she looks so much like her mother....

 

[formerlyme]

‘Baby Holly’ who vanished when her parents were murdered in 1980 is found alive 40 years later

A woman who vanished as an infant when her parents were murdered in Texas in 1980 has been found alive more than 40 years later. The youngster, who was known as “Baby Holly” vanished after Tina Gail Linn Clouse and Harold Dean Clouse Jr were found slain in a wooded area of Houston. Now the...

news.yahoo.com

says she is still called Holly.

 

[formerlyme]

Edited to add another link

There's some amazing news this morning. Holly has been found alive!

Attorney General Paxton’s Cold Case and Missing Persons Unit Locates Woman who has Been Missing for Over 40 Years, Shortly After Creating the Unit

In 1981, two deceased individuals, who were the apparent victims of a homicide, were discovered in a wooded area in Houston, Texas, and their identities could not be determined at that time.

www.texasattorneygeneral.gov

Religious group linked to disappearance of 'Baby Holly Marie' 40 years ago, Texas AG's Office says

Holly Marie Clouse had last been seen by her family in late 1980. Her disappearance may be linked to a "nomadic religious group" that dropped her off at a church.

www.khou.com

Three women traveled to Daytona with the car and were questioned by police but apparently not charged.

Webster said members of the group traveled around the Southwest and believes in the separation of male and female church members. They said they'd previously dumped another baby at a laundromat.

*** so the police did question them, but presumably the missing were adults so it was accepted that they willing joined the religious group? I wonder if there were records on this with the name of the group and that is how they found Holly, by knowing this group apparently dropped babies off elsewhere and followed their trail.... very interesting all my opinions but this is gonna be a documentary some day I hope, so many questions. ***

 

[MrsWatson]

Baby of couple murdered and dumped in woods found ALIVE after 40 years

Holly Marie Clouse, now 42, lives in Oklahoma and has five children. Her biological parents were found dead in Texas in 1981. It is unclear what happened to Holly after her parents were killed.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Friday Fan]

Total speculation: Holly may have known she was dropped off at a church, (she may have known about the strange women in robes) and was probably hoping to find out more about her past and probably was wondering who her parents were etc.

 

[JoeFromLB]

I think perhaps the reason the parents were not identified at first when their bodies were found is they had not been reported as missing. I believe there was some degree of estrangement between them and their families? They moved around a lot too, throughout the southwest, in the days and months before they were killed. Off the grid, so to speak.

Just going by what has been said publicly.

 

[formerlyme]

I think perhaps the reason the parents were not identified at first when their bodies were found is they had not been reported as missing. I believe there was some degree of estrangement between them and their families? They moved around a lot too, throughout the southwest, in the days and months before they were killed. Off the grid, so to speak.

Just going by what has been said publicly.

one of the articles linked above also stated they had a habit of falling in with some religious groups so the family thought it was plausible. My opinions.

 

[Friday Fan]

I think perhaps the reason the parents were not identified at first when their bodies were found is they had not been reported as missing. I believe there was some degree of estrangement between them and their families? They moved around a lot too, throughout the southwest, in the days and months before they were killed. Off the grid, so to speak.

Just going by what has been said publicly.

They were found 250 miles from where they disappeared.
Additionally, he was described as Hispanic.
Sketches made both of them looked Hispanic.

 

[formerlyme]

Total speculation: Holly may have known she was dropped off at a church, (she may have known about the strange women in robes) and was probably hoping to find out more about her past and probably was wondering who her parents were etc.

Possible , also speculation she may have done a dna test and that is how she was linked.....

 

[formerlyme]

(yahoo news link posted above) curious as to how in the 80s (before baby safe haven I believe) people could drop a baby off at a church and as I interpreted it, mention their beliefs and that they had left a baby elsewhere before. It may be questionable reporting but I am eager for more information just to understand better.... could other missing children during that time have been "dropped off " as well?
all opinions are my own and some may be weird lol.

 

[Friday Fan]

Possible , also speculation she did a dna test and that is how she was linked.....

Either way, she was very receptive.
Usually these reunions take days or weeks.

I think she knew something about being dropped off or she long knew something "wasn't right"

She got on Zoom with them the next day

 

[Friday Fan]

curious as to how in the 80s (before baby safe haven I believe) people could drop a baby off at a church and as I interpreted it, mention their beliefs and that they had left a baby elsewhere before. It may be questionable reporting but I am eager for more information just to understand better.... could other missing children during that time have been "dropped off " as well?
all opinions are my own and some may be weird lol.

They also dropped off a baby at a laundromat!

I would think in days gone by, churches probably received a fair share of babies.

 

[formerlyme]

Either way, she was very receptive.
Usually these reunions take days or weeks.

I think she knew something about being dropped off or she long knew something "wasn't right"

She got on Zoom with them the next day

I am curious... did they inform the church her first name (article I linked from Yahoo says she was always known as holly), was she left with that info in a note....
They came public with the info today, but how long as she known? her family?
I haven't been able to find much more out than what is already shared here.

 

[killarney rose]

Either way, she was very receptive.
Usually these reunions take days or weeks.

I think she knew something about being dropped off or she long knew something "wasn't right"

She got on Zoom with them the next day

As an adoptee, I can speculate that she might’ve been looking for her birth family for some time. When she found them(or they found her) she was excited to move forward in connecting with them. I was her age when I was reunited with my birth family. It was an exciting time for all of us.