Family finally gets some closure after couple identified as murdered John and Jane Doe in Harris County

HOUSTON — Down a desolate filth street in north Harris County, the households of a younger couple who was murdered in Houston returned to the location the place their liked one’s our bodies have been found.

Editor’s observe: The above video is from earlier protection of this story.

“Not even the satan himself may’ve stopped me,” stated Donna Casasanta, Harold Dean Clouse Jr.’s mother. “When the telephone would ring, I’d bounce out of my pores and skin.”

The stays of Harold Dean Clouse, Jr. and Tina Gail Linn have been uncovered in 1981 by the Harris County Sheriff’s Workplace. Nonetheless, investigators on the time weren’t capable of determine them.

It wasn’t till just lately that the couple was recognized due to superior genealogical testing.

“All these years I’d see any person that may remind me of him,” stated Chris Casasanta, Harold’s brother. “I am quite a bit youthful than him and I am like his sidekick, you recognize.”

Members of the family from each victims traveled to Houston for closure. As every individual wiped away tears, they shared tales and reminiscences. 

After a heart-stopping go to to the place investigators uncovered the stays of Harold and Tina, the households drove to the ultimate resting place for Harris County Jane and John Does.

“Harris County ‘does’ since January of 1981,” stated Cheryl Clouse, Harold’s sister. “Uknown for many years now Heaven is now your without end.”

Tina and Harold have been on the Harris County Cemetery for 4 a long time, however their households by no means knew.

“We undoubtedly wish to hold them collectively,” stated Les Linn, Tina’s brother. “We by no means received the final likelihood to see them and say goodbye. It simply does not appear proper.”

Inexperienced flags mark the place the couple is resting.

“It was like attending a funeral,” stated Clouse. “Like I used to be attending his service. We sang a track, we prayed.”

Praying for closure and praying for Hollie Marie. The couple’s then child, was by no means discovered or heard from ever once more. If alive, she can be 42 years previous. 

The Nationwide Heart for Lacking and Exploited Youngsters created an age development image of Hollie.

“She’s a mixture of her mother and father and he or she’s telling me tales by Dean’s eyes,” stated Tess Welch, Harold’s sister.

Forensic investigators are nonetheless attempting to unravel the thriller.