Seven-year-old Adele Marie Wells left her grandmother’s house around 11:30 a.m. in Flint, Michigan, on November 21, 1958, intending to go to school and was never seen again. She had stayed home that morning with a slight cold and returned to go to afternoon classes; her last known clothing was a grey cotton coat, a blue dress with small animal figures at the hem, red knee-length socks, and black shoes.

Early witness reports conflicted. Some playmates mentioned a man forcing a girl into a pink-and-white car with large tailfins, a lead later discounted. More consistent accounts described a light-skinned African-American man in a gray coat carrying a girl matching Adele’s description to a dirty two-door black 1949–1951 Chevrolet with a damaged front fender seen near Gilkey Creek on Lewis Street. Other schoolchildren said a man like that had tried to lure them in the days before the disappearance. The case is classified as a non-family abduction and remains unsolved.

Did anyone in Flint or nearby neighborhoods have relatives, photos, or memories of that model Chevrolet or a man seen around Lewis Street in November 1958?