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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Joe Sommerlad

Baby Holly: Seven other extraordinary missing persons cases that were unexpectedly solved

Identifiers International

A 42-year-old woman in Oklahoma has been miraculously identified as “Baby Holly”, an infant who went missing in Texas in 1980 after her parents were brutally murdered, as a result of advances in forensic DNA technology.

Officials tracked Holly down to her place of work following a breakthrough in the cold case made by specialist investigators from Identifinders International, broke the news to her and, within hours, she found herself on a Zoom call with her biological grandmother and aunts and uncles, who were overjoyed at her rediscovery.

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