Authorities say the daughter of a murdered Texas couple found alive decades later had been dropped off for adoption by members of a religious sect

• A baby who went missing over 40 years ago was located this week alive.
• The daughter is now grown, but authorities are still probing her disappearance and her parents' murder.

Authorities shared new details about Holly Marie Clouse's decades-long disappearance — and discovery more than 40 years later — as they look for more information about a "nomadic religious group" whose members they say surrendered her as a baby at a church.

Clouse was found "alive and well" on Tuesday after her family spent over four decades searching for her, the Texas Attorney General's office announced.

Last year, DNA testing revealed that her parents had been killed in rural Houston after going missing in Texas around 1981.

Texas Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster said on Thursday that investigators found that two women wearing robes and no shoes dropped Clouse off at a church in Arizona as a baby.

The women said their religious beliefs included the separation of male and female members, following a vegetarian diet, and not using leather, according to Webster. They also allegedly said this wasn't their first time dropping off a baby — they had left one at a laundromat before.

Clouse was ultimately adopted by a family who "are not suspects in the case," Webster said. She is now 42, married with a job and kids, and living in Oklahoma, according to the attorney general's office.

Authorities said they believe this religious sect involved in Clouse's adoption traveled around the southwestern United States and there were sightings of female members in Yuma, Arizona, in the early 1980s asking for food.

Webster said he "hopes that people will hear this story and come forward," as they continue to investigate the deaths of Clouse's parents.

Webster asked anyone with information about the killings to contact the state's cold case division.