Ten-year-old Aaron Wyche disappeared on June 23, 1980, after being last seen near Tanner’s Corner Grocery in Atlanta. A witness said a Black male about 30 years old, roughly 6 feet tall and 180 pounds with a mustache and goatee, was seen leading Aaron into a blue Chevrolet; another witness reported seeing Aaron later that evening at Moreland Avenue Shopping Center. Aaron’s body was recovered the next day under a bridge over railroad tracks on Constitution Road. He was wearing a red and black striped shirt, blue cut-off pants, and high-top sneakers.

The DeKalb County medical examiner initially ruled the death accidental, citing positional asphyxiation and a broken neck from a fall. Aaron’s mother disputed that finding, saying he feared heights and would not have been on the bridge voluntarily. Investigators later linked evidence from Aaron’s body to other child victims in what became known as the Atlanta Child Murders, and his death was reclassified as a homicide. The investigation narrowed on Wayne Williams; he was arrested and convicted in 1982 for two adult murders, and law enforcement attributed 22 child deaths, including Aaron’s, to him. The case was reopened by DeKalb County police in 2004 and closed again in 2006; a re-examination of evidence from the Atlanta Child Murders was announced in 2019.

Does anyone have memories of Tanner’s Corner Grocery, the Moreland Avenue Shopping Center that night, or other details that could shed light on Aaron’s movements on June 23, 1980?