Last week’s confirmation comes months after Melissa was reunited with her biological parents and siblings — who were able to locate her through a 23andMe DNA test.
While the statue of limitations on possible criminal charges against the sitter has long expired, police are still asking the public to help them track down the kidnapper.
The then-21-year-old single mother placed an advertisement in the local newspaper for a babysitter to watch Melissa as she began working as a waitress and hired Ruth Johnson.Here is an old age-progression hand-out showing Melissa Highsmith when she was kidnapped and what she might have then looked like as an adult..Apantenco called the authorities when her daughter wasn’t brought home and had been searching for her through the years. Few potential leads surfaced.
Melissa says she wants to hold another marriage ceremony with her husband so her father can walk her down the aisle., “I’m just elated, I can’t describe my feelings.The family learned that Melissa was raised fewer than 20 minutes away and lived in Fort Worth for most of her life. “I ran away at 15 years old. I went to the streets. I did what I had to do to get by … I worked the streets,” she said.
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