Woman Abducted at Age 3 in 1983 Found Alive After 40 Years — and Her Mother Is Now Charged

A Crime Stoppers tip led police to track down a woman who had been missing since she was a child in 1983 – and arrest her mother for allegedly kidnapping her. Michelle Newton was just three years old when she and her mother, Debra Newton, left Louisville, Ky., on April 2, 1983, for what Debra allegedly told her then-husband, Joe Newton, was a new job in Georgia, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said in a release on Monday, Dec. 14, WLKY, WFTV9 and Fox35 Orlando report.