40-year-old Kentucky abduction case closed as missing woman found alive, mother charged

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDKY) — 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.

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…

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