Kenneth Thomas Klein was 8 when he disappeared from north Minneapolis on November 10, 1951. He left home with his younger brothers David and Daniel to play at Fairview Park, four blocks away; the three were last seen at about 1:30 p.m. and never returned. Their older brother Gordon went to meet them at the park and found no trace of the boys.

Searches by police and tracking dogs led searchers to the nearby Mississippi River. The dogs picked up the boys’ scent near the riverbank and then lost the trail. Two of the boys’ caps and their Roman Catholic catechism books were recovered near the river, and diving and boat searches failed to recover any bodies. Authorities theorized the bodies might have been carried downstream or trapped in silt, but no conclusive evidence was found.

Kenneth was described as a small boy with brown hair and eyes, wearing a red jacket and cap the day he vanished. The family continued to seek answers for decades, placing newspaper ads into the 1990s. Does anyone have memories or information about Fairview Park or the river area in 1951 that could help clarify what happened?