INFANT-GIRL STOLEN AFTER PARENTS MURDERED 4--YEARS AGO FOUND AFTER DNA MIRACLE
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 23 June 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The bodies of Tina and Dean Clouse are found after a dog carries a human bone out of the forest. There's no sign, however, of their daughter.
This decades-old cold case has one happy ending after baby Holly is identified by genealogical DNA.
Police say Holly was taken to a church in Arizona by members of a religious group. The search is still on for who murdered the parents.
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
- Colleen Fitzpatrick - President and Founder, Identifinders International, Author: "Forensic Genealogy", identifinders.com, Twitter/Facebook: @identifinders
- James Shelnutt - 27 years Atlanta Metro Area Major Case Detective, Former S.W.A.T. officer, Attorney (Gadsden, AL), The Shelnutt Law Firm, P.C., ShelnuttLawFirm.com, Twitter: @ShelnuttLawFirm
- Dr. Shari Schwartz - Forensic Psychologist specializing in Capital Mitigation and Victim Advocacy (Miami Beach, FL), Panthermitigation.com, Twitter: @TrialDoc, Author: "Criminal Behavior" and "Where Law and Psychology Intersect: Issues in Legal Psychology" (Sheryl McCollum - Forensic Expert, Founder: Cold Case Investigative Research Institute in Atlanta, GA, ColdCaseCrimes.org, @ColdCaseTips
- Jeffrey M. Jentzen Professor of Forensic Pathology and Director of Autopsy and Forensic Services at the University of Michigan Medical School, former Medical Examiner in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
- Dave Mack - Crime Online Investigative Reporter
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| 0:00.0 | A tiny baby girl goes missing when her parents are murdered. |
| 0:19.0 | What happened to Baby Holly? |
| 0:21.7 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 0:22.8 | This is Crime Stories. |
| 0:24.1 | Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation and Series XM111. |
| 0:28.4 | First of all, take a listen to our friends at KPRC. |
| 0:31.8 | Holly Marie Klaus. |
| 0:33.3 | The baby girl along with her parents, Harold Dean and Tina Lynn Vanneesh. |
| 0:38.0 | In 1981, the remains of the couple were found somewhere on Wallaceville Road in Northeast |
| 0:43.6 | Harris County. |
| 0:44.8 | But they were not identified until last year when investigators used genetic testing. |
| 0:50.3 | On Thursday, investigators revealed Holly was left at a church in Arizona and taken into |
| 0:55.0 | care. But there was two women who identified themselves as members of a nomadic religious |
| 1:00.9 | group who brought Holly to the church. |
| 1:03.6 | They were wearing white robes and they were barefoot. |
| 1:06.5 | They indicated the beliefs of their religion included the separation of male and female members, |
| 1:11.9 | practicing vegetarian habits, and not using or wearing leather goods. |
| 1:17.2 | The women indicated they had given up a baby before at a laundromat. |
| 1:21.3 | This sounds straight out of a mystery novel. |
| 1:25.0 | The parents are murdered. |
| 1:27.4 | The baby disappears. |
| 1:30.2 | Then she's basically left by people wearing robes and barefoot. |
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