SOLVED: Texas Cold Case | Melissa Highsmith, 21 Months Old | Missing Baby Found Alive (1971 - 2022)

In August 1971, 21-month-old Melissa Highsmith disappeared from her Fort Worth, Texas home after being handed to a woman in white gloves. No witnesses. No ransom. No trace. For fifty-one years, her family searched the nation — only to discover she had been living just miles away the entire time.
This is the real story of one of America’s oldest missing-child cases — a mystery solved not by police, but by DNA technology and unrelenting faith.
From the classified ad that changed everything to the emotional 2022 reunion that stunned investigators, this Cold Case Desk documentary takes you inside the investigation, the heartbreak, and the modern-day miracle that finally brought Melissa home.
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