Holly Clouse in an undated photo.Casasanta/Clouse Family
Posted on 06/10/2022 3:10:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The family of a couple murdered more than four decades ago finally has some answers about what happened to their baby daughter, who was not found among the remains of her parents.
Authorities were previously unable to determine the identities of two people found dead in a wooded area in Houston in 1981, according to a statement from the office of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. They were likely murdered between December 1980 and January 1981, Brent Webster, Texas first assistant attorney general, said during a press conference Thursday afternoon.
That changed last year, when investigators used genetic genealogy to positively identify the bodies as Florida couple Tina Gail Linn Clouse and Harold Dean Clouse Jr., according to Paxton.
The couple's family members had not heard from them since October 1980, according to the statement, while Baby Holly was left at a church in Arizona, Webster said.
Two women who identified themselves as members of a nomadic religious group brought Holly to that church, Webster said. They were wearing white robes and were barefoot and said their religious beliefs included separating male and female members and practicing vegetarian habits and not using or wearing leather goods.
The women also indicated they had given up a baby before at a laundromat, Webster said. Investigators believe the group traveled around the Southwest U.S., including in Arizona, California and Texas, and had been seen in the region asking for food, Webster said.
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Holly Clouse in an undated photo.Casasanta/Clouse Family
I hope the cultists who probably committed the murders have all starved to death by now.
Wow, just damn.
Yet another good reason to have a pocket .380 in the EDC pile.
“Aw! Is she still a widdle cutesy-wootsey baby still?”
It’s hard to believe so many people can be so easily duped into joining insane demonic cults like this / scientology / nexium / etc.
There were at least a couple of stores on the old Unsolved Mysteries on seemingly sensible people getting wrapped up in cults and the like.
“It’s hard to believe so many people can be so easily duped into joining insane demonic cults like this / scientology / nexium / etc.”
Adding to your list the democrat party and branch covidians.
Wow! Amazing! I remember this case for some reason. Maybe the name “Baby Holly” stuck.
Anyone who goes into the wild unarmed and unprepared for predators - the 2-legged ones - are simply prey.
It is an absolute.
Ditto that!
I normally carry a Pfeifer-Zeliska .600 Nitro Express just for those Bigfoot encounters.
Yep. And Marxists/Communists/Socialists.
Appendix cary?
Where is the editor?
“They were likely murdered between December 1980 and January 1981”
There are no months, weeks, days, hours or even seconds between December 1980 and January 1981.
Should have been “murdered in December 1980 or January 1981.”
Perhaps there is hope for Shannon Verhage to be found alive.
Yup.
Needless to say, that despite managing my risk, the odds are high that I’ll make the news in the near future.
I assure you that it won’t likely be due to my own violent death.
Same here. At that time we had recently moved to the north Dallas area, and had a daughter the same age as Holly.
I hope not. Do you live in an urban environment?
No. Extremely rural, in fact.
But my parents do.
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