Emmanuel Kalief Birts was an infant of about five weeks when he was taken from his Dallas home on September 14, 1989. A woman identifying herself as social worker Debra Manning had visited the family several times beforehand, saying Emmanuel needed medical attention for an eye infection and later suggesting a possible HIV concern tied to the mother’s past drug use. On the day he disappeared Emmanuel’s mother left him with his grandmother while she went to Parkland Memorial Hospital; the woman arrived at the house, said she needed to take him for a medical test, and promised to return that afternoon. She never came back and Emmanuel has not been seen since.

The abductor is described as an African-American woman in her thirties, about 5 feet 6 inches and 145 pounds, with sandy brown hair that may have been a wig and speaking with a foreign accent. Despite extensive investigation, neither Emmanuel nor the woman has been located and the family and investigators continue to seek information. If anyone knew the family, that neighborhood in 1989, or remembers a woman using the name Debra Manning, please come forward with what you know.