It's In 1980, a family of three disappeared.

Though two would later be found murdered, it took 40 years to solve what happened to the third.

But as often happens in unsolved cases, one answer just leads to more questions,

but in this case, it also leads to a very important thing, hope.

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This case was recommended by a listener, and it reminds me a little of the Lisa and Tiffany Stacey case.

So let's go ahead and get started with Harold Klaus who went by his middle name Dean and Tina Lynn.

The two lived in New Smyrna Beach, Florida

in the late 1970s, and they met through their siblings,

Tina's brother was dating Dean's sister. At the time they met, Tina was 15 and Dean was 19 and

within a year of dating, the two found out that Tina was pregnant, and in spite of their very young ages, they decided to have a quick

courthouse wedding in June of 1979. They lived with Tina's sister for a while and their daughter Holly Marie was born on January 24th, 1980.

With the hope of better job opportunities, the young family moved to Louisville, Texas.

They had so little at that time that they had to borrow Dean's

mother's car just to make the move, and they lived with Dean's cousin until they

could get on their feet.

At that time, Dallas was exploding in size,

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