Tiahese Jackson was 10 years old when she vanished from a Staten Island motel on August 14, 1983. The family had been staying at the Mariner’s Harbor Motel after a fire destroyed their apartment and were planning to relocate south. Tiahese left the motel about 1:30 p.m. to buy chicken wings at the nearby Crown Supermarket and never returned; her mother discovered she was missing about three hours later and reported it to police.

Searches by police and volunteers followed and her photograph was shown nationally, but no trace has ever been found. Investigators focused on Andre Rand, a convicted child sex offender released from prison twelve days before the disappearance, who kept a makeshift campsite in woods less than half a mile from the motel and was reportedly seen loitering in the motel parking lot. Authorities lacked sufficient evidence to charge him in this case. Tiahese is considered a suspected victim of homicide.

Does anyone have information about Tiahese’s last known movements or the area around Mariner’s Harbor Motel in August 1983?