HOUSTON - "Baby Holly", who had been missing since her parents were found murdered in Houston in 1981, was dropped off at a church in Arizona decades ago and taken into their care, Texas officials said.On Thursday, the Texas Attorney General’s Office announced that Holly Marie Clouse had been found alive more than four decades after her parents' murders.MORE: 'Baby Holly' found alive 42 years after her parents were murdered in HoustonBaby Holly and her parents Tina Gail Linn Clouse and Harold Dean Clouse Jr.
had last been seen by family in 1980 before they left their home in Volusia County, Florida so Dean could pursue carpentry work in Texas.The newlywed couple’s bodies were found in a wooded area of Houston in January 1981, but were not identified until October 2021.The couple's young daughter was not found with the remains of the Clouses, and the search continued for decades.
Holly Marie Clouse in a 1980 photo taken in Lewisville, Texas. On Thursday, the Texas Attorney General's Office's newly-formed Cold Case and Missing Persons Unit announced that Holly had been found alive.The 42-year-old mother of five lives in Oklahoma and has been reunited online with family on both sides.The investigation into the Clouses’ deaths continues, but the Texas AG’s Office released some details Thursday on what happened to Holly decades ago.Baby Holly was left in a church in Arizona and taken into their care, an official with the Texas AG’s Office said, adding that the family who raised Holly are not suspects in the case."Two women who identified themselves as members of a nomadic religious group brought Holly to the church," First Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster. "They were wearing white robes, and they were barefoot.