"She blames herself for Melissa being taken"

The Daily Crime

VAULT Studios

True Crime

4.3 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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In August of 1971, a 21-month-old girl vanished from her Fort Worth, Texas home. WFAA Reporter Chris Sadeghi tells us about one of the oldest missing persons cases in the country and the family's ongoing search for answers. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up.
0:01.5	It's our ultimate goal to find and reunite our family before they pass on.
0:06.5	It's our faith that sustains us.
0:08.4	And it's our faith that makes me believe that she's alive.
0:11.5	For Vault Studios, I'm Will Johnson.
0:13.0	You're listening to The Daily Crime.
0:29.1	Melissa Highsmith was less than two years old when she was kidnapped from her home in Fort Worth, Texas, over 50 years ago.
0:35.6	Melissa's brother, Jeff, says the family and his mother have lived with the pain of that day their entire lives.
0:39.3	She blames herself because of her daughter being kidnapped.
0:42.1	Our whole life, we've grown up with this.
0:43.8	Do you think you'll see Melissa again?
0:46.7	Well, I can't give up hope.
0:49.7	Sometimes I think I may never see her again.
0:52.6	But Melissa Heidsmith's family is still holding on to hope.
1:00.4	I'm now joined by Chris Sondagee, a reporter at WFAA in Dallas, Texas.
1:01.8	Chris, thanks for being here with us.
1:02.9	Yes, no problem.
1:03.3	Thank you.
1:09.1	Chris, this is one of the oldest missing persons cases in the country, going back to August of 1971.
1:13.5	Tell us about the last time this 20-month-old baby, Melissa Highsmith, was ever seen by her family. Yes, so the story that the mother tells was that she
1:20.0	was looking for a babysitter, the mother, Alta Highsmith. She was looking for a babysitter to watch
1:25.6	21-month-old Melissa Highsmith, her first-born baby girl.
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