Family of Melissa Highsmith, Texas toddler kidnapped over 50 years ago, 'getting closer' to answers
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The family of missing Melissa Highsmith, who went missing from Texas as a toddler in 1971, says they are 'getting closer' to answers in the case after a potential sighting.
"We feel like we're stepping in the right direction," Jeff Highsmith, Melissa's 42-year-old brother, told Fox News Digital of the search for his sister more than five decades after she vanished. "We're moving closer to finding out where she is and what's going on." The family of Melissa Highsmith held a memorial on her 53rd birthday outside the Bob Bolen Public Safety Complex in Fort Worth, TX. (James Breeden for Fox News Digital) The family of Melissa Highsmith held a memorial on her 53rd birthday outside the Bob Bolen Public Safety Complex in Fort Worth, TX. Photo: Rebecca Del Bosque (sister) (James Breeden for Fox News Digital) The family of Melissa Highsmith held a memorial on her 53rd birthday outside the Bob Bolen Public Safety Complex in Fort Worth, TX. Photo: Melissa’s sister Victoria Garner moves a sign of a non-profit she runs. (James Breeden for Fox News Digital) The family of Melissa Highsmith held a memorial on her 53rd birthday outside the Bob Bolen Public Safety Complex in Fort Worth, TX. Photo: Melissa’s sister Rebecca Del Bosque is comforted by her niece Mellissa Robinson. (James Breeden for Fox News Digital) The family of Melissa Highsmith held a memorial on her 53rd birthday outside the Bob Bolen Public Safety Complex in Fort Worth, TX. Photo: Victoria Garner (sister), Jannae Hayes (cousin), Rebecca Del Bosque (sister), Jeffrie Highsmith (brother), Mellissa Robinson (extended family), Mollie Cooper, (cousin) and a supporter. (James Breeden for Fox News Digital) Audrey Conklin is a digital reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business. Email tips to audrey.conklin@fox.com or on Twitter at @audpants.
Melissa disappeared from Fort Worth, Texas, Aug. 23, 1971, when she was just 21 months old, according to National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), which has been working with the Highsmith family to find Melissa and keep her face — a digitally age-progressed face — in the news.
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