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Shadow of doubt, single mom missing12/17/2023 “The Fort Worth Police Department (FWPD) is overjoyed to hear about how the Highsmith’s use of 23andMe led them to Melissa,” police said in a statement to. Watch More True Crime On Oxygen In Our Free App The woman came, took Melissa, but never returned. It’s been one of the country’s longest missing persons cases, according to NCMEC. Apantenco hired a babysitter and told her roommate that she would be picking Melissa up while she was at work. Her mother, Alta Apantenco, was working as a waitress, and placed an ad in a newspaper for a babysitter, according to a previous statement to from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Melissa, who grew up with the name Melanie Walden, disappeared back on Augin Fort Worth, Texas when she was 21 months old. RELATED: ‘My Heart Right Now Is Just Full’: Missing Melissa Highsmith Is Reunited With Her Family 51 Years After She Was Kidnapped Why did she even have me if she didn’t want me?" “And she said the reason she sheltered me was because I was born at home and that I had brain damage. "I wasn't allowed to go outside and play, or she always sheltered me,” she told People. Highsmith shared that she was never close to the woman she believed to be her mother, and ran away at the age of 15. “Everything that I had known before the age of 15, before I left home, was a lie,” Melissa Highsmith told People magazine. A Texas woman kidnapped as a baby 51 years ago and recently reunited with her biological family is opening up about her "bad childhood."
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