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For at least 40 years, Donna Casasanta nursed the heartache that arose from the supposed death of her an infant granddaughter and that of the girl’s parents.
There were no leads nor developments in the cold case surrounding the early 1980s murder of Houston couple Tina Gail Linn Clouse and Harold Dean Clouse Jr. until earlier this year when Texas Attorney General (AG) Ken Paxton announced that their daughter had been found alive.
Dubbed “Baby Holly” by the media, 42-year-old Holly Marie Miller had an emotional reunion with Casasanta and other members of the biological family she never knew, ABC News reported.
ABC News reported that Miller, an Oklahoma resident, was locked in a tight embrace with her grandmother and two aunts, a happy ending no one thought would happen.
“I love you,” Miller told Casasanta, the New York Post reported. “Thank you for all your prayers.”
According to Miller, God looked after her “all these years.”
Citing Houston CBS affiliate KHOU, Houston Daily reported in June that after Miller’s whereabouts became known much to the joy and relief of her surviving relatives, she had an online reunion with them.
Miller, who was adopted after being found by authorities at an Arizona church following her biological parents’ deaths, today is a mother of five, ABC News reported.
“My heart is overwhelmed with joy and sadness,” she said in a statement, per the national outlet. “Joy to get to know my parents' family who have been praying and searching for me. Sadness for our loss of my parents and the time we could have shared together.”
Her parents' homicides remained unsolved, and her adoptive parents weren’t implicated in the deaths, ABC News reported.
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) family advocacy director Lanae Holmes told ABC News that it’s important that Miller’s life before the reunion be acknowledged, and Miller and her family will confront any "conflicting and competing emotions.”