YUMA, Ariz. - The story of "Baby Holly" has made national headlines recently, and there’s a strong Arizona connection to the woman found alive and well more than 40 years after being separated from her murdered parents.Their killings are still unsolved, and authorities say a cult could be linked to the crimes.The beginning of Holly Clouse’s life is a mystery, but investigators know part of her life took place in the desert.Donna Casasanta is Holly’s biological grandmother."A nightmare.
It was something that was on our mind constantly and I'm wondering what happened to her," Casasanta said.For more than 40 years, she had no clue where Holly or her parents could be."Every time the phone rang, I think, maybe this, that … you don't want them to be dead, mind you, but yet you want to lay it to rest, you want to find out what happened," Casasanta said.In the late 70s, her son Harold Dean Clouse Jr.
and his wife Tina left Florida for Texas after having Holly. By October 1980, Casasanta stopped hearing from them.Investigators in Texas say a woman who went by "Sister Susan" called Casasanta, claiming she wanted to sell Dean’s car back to his family.
They met at the Daytona Racetrack in Florida where three young women appeared in white robes and sandals.They reportedly told Casasanta, "Your son don't want any contact with you anyway, none of the family, they've joined a group, a cult and they're with us now and he'll not talk to you."By January 12, 1981, search dogs made a grisly discovery in Texas."In 1981, two deceased individuals were discovered in the wooded area in Houston, Texas.