Melissa Highsmith went missing when she was kidnapped by a babysitter at her parents' Fort Worth home in 1971. Five decades later, she's been found.
Melissa Highsmith went missing when she was kidnapped by a babysitter at her parents' Fort Worth home in 1971. She was just 22 months old at the time of her disappearance.
Melissa, now 53, is back with her parents for the first time since she was kidnapped at just 22 months old. Jeffrie Highsmith, her father, recalls the moment he heard his daughter had been found."They said 'Dad, she's alive,' and I started crying... after 51 years, it's so emotional."
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