Indiana Mother Missing Since 1974 Found Alive In Texas

An Indiana mother of three who vanished

without a trace in 1974 has been found alive in

Texas.

Lula Ann Gillespie-Miller was 28 when she signed

away her parental rights to her three children,

including a newborn,over to her parents.

A letter her parents received was postmarked

from Richmond, Indiana in 1975 and was the last

time they heard from Gillespie-Miller.

Gillespie-Miller thought she was too young for

motherhood,she reportedly told her parents. For

the next four decades,she was a missing person

in the state of Indiana.

According to the Indiana State Police , that all

changed after Detective Sergeant Scott Jarvis took

the case in January 2014. The Doe Network , a

group that assists families with missing persons

investigations, initially contacted ISP about

Gillespie-Miller.

Gillespie-Miller began his search in Richmond,

where he discovered a case of a Jane Doe whose

body was buried in an unmarked grave in the

Indiana town.

The detective took a sample of Gillespie-Miller’s

daughter’s DNA to compare to her missing

mother’s and potentially determine whether the

buried body was hers. While awaiting the DNA

test results, police said Jarvis’investigation took

him in some new directions.

He began to following the trail of a woman with

similarities to Gillespie-Miller who had lived in

Tennessee in the 1980’s, then moved to Texas.

That trail led to a woman who’d been living in a

small Texas town since the 1990’s, possibly under

an alias.

After this past Thursday, Jarvis would no longer

need the DNA results after Texas Rangers the

detective asked to visit the woman in Texas made

contact.

Police say the woman admitted to them that she

is,indeed, Lula Ann Gillespie-Miller.

She is now 69 years old. Gillespie-Miller has

committed no crime, police say.

Authorities will not reveal exactly where she now

resides because she also retains her right to

anonymity.

However, she gave police permission to give her

daughter Tammy Miller her address so the two

might soon reconnect.

However, Tammy told PEOPLE that’s simply not

going to happen.

“I’m angry,” Miller, 45, said in her first extensive

interview.

“This isn’t going to be one of those happy, made-

for-TV movies.