Eight-year-old Larry Wayne Perry vanished from Dumfries, Virginia, on the evening of May 22, 1979. He finished supper at his grandparents’ home and went out to play about 8:00 p.m., wearing a light blue pullover t-shirt with a Superman logo, brown or rust-colored pants, and blue and yellow sneakers. Witnesses saw him chasing after a four-wheel-drive truck in a local play area; his grandparents reported him missing just after midnight.

Investigators focused early on the truck’s driver, Michael Carl George. When questioned the day after Larry disappeared, George denied knowing anything. In August 1982 he confessed, saying he had taken Larry target shooting, that the boy accidentally shot himself with George’s pistol, and that George buried the body in a ravine. Searches based on his statements did not recover remains. Authorities doubted the accidental-shooting account and later accepted guilty pleas from George to abduction and involuntary manslaughter in 1984; he served a short term and was released in 1986. Larry’s whereabouts remain unknown and the case unsolved.

Did anyone in Dumfries in 1979 ever see Larry that evening or remember that truck or driver?