Authorities in the US state of Texas announced Thursday that a woman had been found more than four decades after she went missing as a baby. 

The woman asked authorities to help unravel the mystery that still surrounds the death of her parents, who were murdered in 1981 and were only identified recently. 

Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster in Texas said that the 42-year-old woman Holly is in good health and has now met members of her biological family for the first time. 

“Finding Holly is a birthday present from heaven since we found her on Junior’s (her father’s) birthday,” Holly’s grandmother, said in a statement. 

“I prayed for more than 40 years for answers and the Lord has revealed some of it... we have found Holly. Thank you to all of the investigators for working so hard to find Holly. I prayed for them day after day and that they would find Holly and she would be alright. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to Mindy Montford. We will be forever grateful.”