Murders of Dean and Tina Clouse

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Harold Dean Clouse Jr. and Tina Linn Clouse, were a pair of long-unidentified murder victims found outside of Houston, Texas in January, 1981. After moving in the summer of 1980 with their infant daughter, Holly Marie, from Volusia County, Florida to Lewisville, Texas, the Clouses stopped contacting their families in October 1980. Their remains were found in a wooded area north of Houston on January 12, 1981. The bodies were found within feet of each other, both significantly decomposed, with a post-mortem interval of approximately two months. Dean Clouse had been bound and beaten to death, and Tina Clouse was strangled. Holly Marie's remains were not found with or near her parents' remains. After the two bodies were not identified and the case grew cold, they were buried – as Harris County John Doe and Jane Doe – in anonymous graves, where they remained unidentified for 41 years. In 2011, the Clouses' bodies were exhumed for genetic testing. In 2021, forensic genealogists positively identified...

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