In 1971, when Melissa Highsmith was 22 months old, a caregiver kidnapped her. Her relatives posted on a Facebook page named “WE FOUND MELISSA!!!” that she had spent the majority of her childhood in Fort Worth and had no idea that she had been abducted.
Melissa Highsmith’s family reunite with sister abducted as infant decades ago
Having been separated from her family for 51 years as a baby, Melissa Highsmith has now been reunited with them. Just in time for the holidays, Highsmith’s family discovered a match with Melissa’s children when they opened the results of a 23andme test on November 22. The family had been looking for Melissa for years.
Jeff Highsmith, Melissa’s younger brother, who had never met his sister before last week, told Fox News Digital that “one of our sisters phoned her kid, the youngest one, and her daughter led us to her mom.”
The Highsmith family says Melissa’s likeness to her mother is uncanny and they are still awaiting the results of an official DNA test from Melissa herself.
“On Thanksgiving night, we had coffee with her, and the moment I laid eyes on her, I knew. When they first met, Jeff Highsmith recalled, “I knew. I couldn’t take my eyes off her because she looked just like her “mom.
