Angel Lenair was a 12-year-old African-American girl who disappeared from southwest Atlanta on March 4, 1980, after leaving home to visit a friend. She was last seen at the friend’s house watching television. When she failed to return, her mother reported her missing. Six days later, on March 10, her body was found in a wooded vacant lot along Campbellton Road.

Angel had been tied to a tree with an electrical cord; her hands were bound with cord and a pair of white underwear that did not belong to her had been forced into her mouth. The cause of death was ligature strangulation. Two men were questioned early in the investigation but were cleared and no one has ever been charged in her killing. Wayne Williams, later convicted of two adult murders and linked in various ways to several child deaths from that period, was never charged specifically with Angel’s murder.

Her death remains unsolved. If anyone knew Angel, lived in southwest Atlanta in March 1980, or has information about her movements that week, please share what can help her case.