Lashawnda Patrice Coates was a 10-month-old infant last seen on August 1, 1991, in River Rouge, Michigan. She had black hair and brown eyes. Several months before her disappearance she suffered a broken arm and bruising after an incident in December 1990 that involved her father, Byron Ogletree, and led child services to remove her from her parents’ care. Lashawnda was placed with her paternal grandmother, Barbara Brown, in June 1991.

On August 1, 1991, while the grandmother was at work and a teenage aunt was babysitting, Byron Ogletree arrived at the home and took Lashawnda without permission. He later phoned the child’s mother, Samora Coates, and Samora said she heard sounds that suggested Ogletree was shaking and choking the baby. Ogletree was arrested on September 7, 1991, for parental kidnapping; Lashawnda was not with him and he refused to say where she was. He reportedly told both his mother and Samora that he had lost his temper and killed the child. Lashawnda has never been found and the River Rouge Police Department continues to hold the case file.

Are there any witnesses or neighbors from River Rouge in 1991 who remember that day or saw Byron Ogletree with the child?