LOUISVILLE, Ky. (FOX 56) — A Kentucky family has been reunited with their daughter 40 years after her abduction.
Michelle Newton disappeared from Louisville in 1983 when she was only three years old after allegedly being abducted by her noncustodial mother, Debra Newton.
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She turned 45 in 2024, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children released an age-progressed image showing what she may have looked like in hopes someone would recognize her.
“Michelle’s whereabouts remain unknown to this day, and we have not given up hope,” the organization wrote in October 2024.
The case had gone cold for decades, until a Crime Stoppers tip provided the breakthrough investigators needed…