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In an extraordinary case that spans more than four decades, a woman who was reported missing at the age of three has been found alive, having lived her entire life unaware that she was a victim of parental kidnapping and the subject of a nationwide search. Michelle Marie Newton, now 46, was allegedly abducted by her own mother from Kentucky, USA, in April 1983. She was located and identified in November 2025, living under an assumed name with no knowledge of her true identity or her place on the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children database. The Disappearance and a Father's Decades-Long Search The story began when Michelle's mother, Debra Newton, told her husband Joseph that she and their three-year-old daughter were moving early as part of a family plan to relocate to Georgia. When Joseph arrived in Georgia, his wife and daughter were gone. After a "final phone call" between 1984 and 1985, both mother and child vanished complet...