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In the winter of 1980, a six-year-old girl named Kelly Juanita Staples vanished while walking to school in her South Shore neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. The young girl, who stood at three feet tall and weighed 42 pounds, was a student at a nearby elementary school, just a few blocks from her home. On the morning she disappeared, Kelly was dressed for the cold weather in a brown and white striped cap, a brown scarf, a red plaid coat, blue jeans, and blue rubber boots. She had black hair, bro ...Read More
Last Seen: Jan 08, 1980

Victim Details

Oct 06, 2009

Jul 08, 2024

Kelly

Staples

51

6

36 inches

42 lbs

Black / African American

Female

Jan 08, 1980

Chicago

Illinois

Cook County

146040

Chicago Police Department - Area Central

Chicago

Illinois

Cook County

60609

Maria Moore

Detective

5101 South Wentworth Avenue, Illinois

3127478380

Local

Law Enforcement

M12A5775

Chicago Police Department - Area Central

7044

Black

Brown

Brown

06/07/2026


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