A welfare check on June 20, 2016, at a Pittsburgh home intended to remove six children for medical neglect revealed only four. That discovery prompted a search for twins Ivon Fowler and his sister Inisha, who were officially last in contact on September 11, 2006, at age seven, though some relatives say they hadn’t seen the twins since they were toddlers around 2002 or 2003.

Their mother, Patricia Fowler, gave investigators multiple, conflicting accounts—saying the twins lived with various relatives or friends in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, and at one point claiming she had sold each child for $2,000 to a woman named Barbara, a statement she later retracted. There are no recent photos, neither child was ever enrolled in school, and there is no activity on their Social Security numbers. Ivon suffered severe scalding burns as a toddler in November 2000 and has extensive scarring; a social worker later thought a child seen in 2006 lacked those scars. Patricia pleaded guilty to making false statements and to theft and fraud for collecting benefits on behalf of the missing twins and received probation; more serious charges were dropped for lack of evidence.

What can readers who knew the family or the twins add about their whereabouts or about contacts in the early 2000s?