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Melissa Highsmith Wiki – Melissa Highsmith Biography
Police have officially confirmed the identity of the Texas woman who was kidnapped in 1971 and reunited with her family last November. Through DNA testing, the Fort Worth Police Department confirmed the identity of Melissa Highsmith, a 53-year-old woman who was abducted when she was 22 months old in 1971.
“We hope the result of this test provides additional closure for the Highsmith family,” a police spokesperson said in a statement shared with PEOPLE.
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The age of Melissa Highsmith is 53 years.
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Melissa Highsmith reunited with her family after 51 years
The latest development comes nearly six months after Melissa was reunited with her mother Alta Apantenco, her father Jeffrie Highsmith and her siblings Victoria, Rebecca, Sharon and Jeff last year. She also comes 51 years after her abduction, when a person posing as a babysitter stole her as a baby from her home in Fort Worth, Texas on August 23, 1971.
Before the police confirmation, the family previously told PEOPLE that their own DNA match had already confirmed the news they had been waiting for all these years, that Melissa, who grew up as Melanie Miyoko, was indeed alive and the family member long lost. she had been looking for.
Melissa, who ran away as a teenager, said in November that she and the woman who raised her just 10 minutes from where she was abducted “were never close” and that she ran away as a teenager. She added that she no longer communicated with the woman who raised her.
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“The whole time I was there, it was a bad childhood,” she said. “I wasn’t allowed to go out and play, and she always protected me. And she said the reason she protected me was because I was born at home and brain damaged.” “I used to wonder, ‘Why did she have me if she didn’t want me?’ Melissa remembered.Read More……
