Authorities confirmed the identity of a Texas woman who was abducted more than half a century ago and reunited with her family last year, police say.
, police said Thursday.
The Fort Worth Police Department said it had completed DNA testing for Melissa Highsmith, who was allegedly taken by a babysitter 51 years ago, when she was 22 months old.In a news release, the police department said that although the statute of limitations on possible criminal charges expired when Highsmith was 38, its major case unit continues to ask for the public’s help with information about the abduction..
Highsmith told her family that her life had been hard and that she ran away from home at 15, according to the station. She’d lived most of her life in Fort Worth.Sister Victoria Highsmith told the station that the discovery came late last year, weeks after her parents submitted DNA samples to Ancestry.com and 23andMe. The samples matched DNA submitted by Melissa Highsmith’s children, the sister told the station.
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