When Texan Melissa Highsmith received a Facebook message last year from a man who suggested he might be her father, she thought it was some sort of scam. Jeffrie Highsmith and his wife Alta Apantenco’s baby daughter had been abducted from their home in Texas five decades ago, and the heartbroken couple had been searching for her ever since. But 51 years later, a DNA match on an ancestry site pointed toward Melissa – then known as Melanie Walden – as being their long-lost child.
