In 1980, Dean and Tina Clouse left Florida with their baby daughter, Holly, to start a new life in Texas.
Then they vanished.
Their families were eventually told the young couple had joined a religious group, given away their possessions and no longer wanted any contact. Heartbreaking as it was, there seemed to be little reason to believe otherwise.
But forty years later, advances in forensic genetic genealogy uncovered a devastating truth.
Dean and Tina hadn't chosen to disappear.
They had been murdered.
What followed was an investigation filled with twists that almost seem too unbelievable to be true. Women dressed in white. An unidentified baby. A religious group known as the Christ Family. And a mystery that, even after four decades, still isn't completely solved.
In this episode, I explore one of the most remarkable cold cases I've ever researched, and the extraordinary chain of events that reunited a family after more than forty years, while leaving one haunting question unanswered.
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