Overview
- A tip to Crime Stoppers led investigators to Debra Newton in Marion County, Florida.
- Data comparisons and a DNA test matching the mother’s sister at about 99.9% confirmed the woman is Michelle Marie Newton.
- Police told the 46-year-old in November that she had been living under a false identity, according to WLKY.
- Newton, who had been using the name Sharon Nealy, was arrested on Nov. 24 and charged with custodial interference.
- The daughter contacted the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office and reunited with her father in Kentucky, as officials called the case extraordinary.