In 1981, two deceased individuals were
discovered in the wooded area in Houston, TX.
Their identities could not
be determined at that time.
What law enforcement did know is
that they were likely murdered.
Decades later, in 2021,
the Organization Identifiers International
was able to positively identify
the bodies that were found in 1981
through the use of genetic testing.
The couple was from Florida and
their names were Tina, GAIL, Lynn,
Klaus, and Harold Dean Klaus.
They were a young couple.
We learned this couple,
had an infant daughter named Holly,
who was not found with the
remains of the clauses.
And so the search for Baby Holly began.
The linen Klaus families have been
searching for answers concerning the
clauses and their baby daughter Holly,
since they were last heard from in 1980.
Last year,
when the families learned that the
two bodies from found in Houston
in 1980 were one were in fact,
Tina and Dean Klaus,
the families began looking for answers
as to what as to what happened to
Baby Holly and the circumstances
surrounding the deaths of the clauses.
Through collaborative efforts of
the Texas Attorney General's Office
Cold case and missing Persons Unit,
the Lewisville Police Department,
the Volusia County Sheriff's
Office in Florida.
The Arizona Attorney General's office,
the Harris County Sheriff's Office
and the National Center for
Missing and Exploited Children.
I'm excited to announce that Baby
Holly has been located alive
and well 42 years later.
I also am happy to announce that
the National Center for Missing
and Exploited Children have offered
and will be paying for Holly to
be reunited in person with the
Lynn and Klaus families.
Holly has been notified of the identities
of her biological parents and got to meet
her extended biological for the family
for the first time this Tuesday they hope
to meet in person soon and in Nick Mick,
the National Center for Missing and Exploited
Children is going to facilitate that meeting.
This investigation highlights the hard
work and collaboration of multiple law
enforcement agencies working together
across the country and demonstrates the
importance of continuing to investigate cold
cases both in Texas and in the United States.
Now this next part I'm sharing with
you today because we're asking.
From for help from the public.
Because we have yet to solve this particular
crime while we rejoice today that Holly
has been found and families that were
looking her for decades rejoice, we
still are looking for suspects in this case.
And I want to share that
information with you,
and I want to say this again.
If you have information in this case
I'm about to share some facts with you.
But if you have information about this case,
please contact the Texas Attorney
General's Office Cold Case unit at
Cold Case unit at oag.texas.gov.
That's cold case unit at oag.texas.gov
and our phone number as well
for this investigation is
5129360742.
The following information.
Is released today regarding our
investigation in hopes that people
will hear this story and come
forward with more information.
Baby Holly was left at a church in
Arizona and was taken into their care
out of respect for Holly and her family.
We won't have any further comments or
details regarding that at this time.
The family that raised Holly
are not suspects in this case.
Two women who identified themselves
as members of a nomadic religious
group brought Holly to the church.
They were wearing white robes
and they were barefoot.
They indicated the beliefs of their
religion included the separation
of male and female members
practicing vegetarian habits and
not using or wearing leather goods.
The women indicated they had given
up a baby before at a laundromat.
It is believed that this particular group
traveled around southwestern United States.
Including Arizona, California,
and possibly Texas,
there were sightings of this
religious group around the Yuma,
AZ area in the early 80s.
The women members would be seen around
town at various points asking for food.
In late December 1980 or early January 1981,
the families of Tina Lynn Klaus and Harold
Dean Klaus received a phone call from
someone identifying herself as sister Susan.
Who explained she was calling from
Los Angeles, CA and wanted to return
Tina and Dean's car to their family.
She further stated that Tina and Dean had
joined their religious group and no longer
wanted to have contact with their families.
They were also giving up
all of their possessions.
Sister Susan asked for money in exchange
for returning the car to Florida,
where the family lived.
The family agreed,
but contacted the local authorities
about the situation.
The family agreed to meet sister Susan
at the Daytona Racetrack in Florida.
The family described meeting two to three
women and possibly one male and once again,
these women were wearing robes
and to be appeared to be members
of this religious group.
The police purportedly took
the women into custody,
but there is no record of a police report
on file that has been found as of yet.
Given the age of this case,
that is common,
we're still on the hunt for
that police report.
The return car belonged to Dean's
mother and was in fact the car
that they had in their possession,
and this is the description of the vehicle.
It's a 1978 two door Red
Burgundy AMC Concorde.
Tina,
Lynn Klaus and Harold Dean Klaus
were likely murdered between
December 1980 or early January 1981.
Their bodies were found off of
Wallisville Rd in Harris County, Texas.
I'm gonna repeat that their
bodies were found off of Wallace
Ville Rd in Harris County,
Texas,
and this was between January
6th and January 11th of 1981.
They were last heard from by their
families in late October 1980,
and they had been living in Lewisville,
TX in October of 1980 around that time.
If you have any information
regarding these murders,
we ask that you come forward,
even if it's a piece of information
that may not be concrete evidence,
we need to find pieces of the
puzzle to solve this crime.
The Texas AG's office Cold case unit
and the law enforcement agencies
that work with us are committed
to bringing justice in this case.
We wish Holly the best.
We're grateful that we've found her,
but we must continue with our purpose
of finding who murdered this couple.
As we stated earlier,
we cannot take questions today because
this is a pending investigation,
but we thank you so much for coming out
today and we ask again to the public,
please, please come forward with information.
Thank you.
The district.
I'm not gonna take questions,
but I'm more than happy to read the
description of the women again.
The women who identified themselves.
As members of nomadic religious group
who brought Holly to the church,
they were wearing white
robes and were barefoot.
They indicated the beliefs of their
religion included the separation
of male and female members,
practicing vegetarian habits and
not using or wearing leather goods.
The women indicated they had given
up a baby before it laundromat
and additionally they were known
for asking for food when they were
located in human Air Yuma, AZ.
Thank you again.
Any questions you can direct
to our comms department.
All right, thanks everybody that wraps it up.
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