Parents of Melissa Highsmith want answers from Fort Worth police
"I guess I gave up, I mean after 51 years you don't ever expect to see a child again," said Alta Apantenco, Melissa's mother.
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"I guess I gave up, I mean after 51 years you don't ever expect to see a child again," said Alta Apantenco, Melissa's mother.
Jeffrie Highsmith and Apantenco re-met their daughter Saturday in an emotional reunion at a lab in Fort Worth. Read more at Boston.com.
A Fort Worth woman learned she was “Baby Melissa,” the focus of a decades-long search. “I finally have a mother and a father that want me,” she said.
She was found "purely because of DNA, not because of any police / FBI involvement ... or even our family's own private investigations," her family said.
Melissa Highsmith, who family say was abducted in Fort Worth in 1971, located in South Carolina, more than 1,000 miles away