Texas police ID woman as baby abducted over 50 years ago
The Fort Worth Police Department on Thursday positively identified Melissa Highsmith as a toddler who was abducted from her family's apartment in 1971 through a DNA test.
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The Fort Worth Police Department on Thursday positively identified Melissa Highsmith as a toddler who was abducted from her family's apartment in 1971 through a DNA test.
Melissa Highsmith was reunited with her family in November 2022 after a 23andme test showed a connection to her birth parents.
A combination of DNA technology and genetic genealogy allowed law enforcement authorities to solve a number of murder and missing persons cold cases in 2022.
The Texas woman that was abducted 51 years ago by the babysitter shared her horrific childhood and the sexual abuse she endured by her stepfather before she became a teen runaway
After 51 years apart a Fort Worth family was reunited thanks to a DNA test.