Donnell White Jr vanished from Ashtabula, Ohio, after being last seen on August 10, 1991, when he was 14 and living with his grandmother. Accounts of his final hours conflict: his mother said he went to play basketball after dinner and never returned, and neighborhood children said they played with him that evening on West 47th Street. Another account, at one point believed by his father, held that Donnell went fishing with a local Hispanic man known as Chicago and did not come back.

Initial investigators classified him as an endangered runaway because he had briefly run from his mother a few weeks earlier; that status was later changed to an endangered missing child. Police questioned the man known as Chicago about a fishing trip and alleged involvement in cockfighting; he denied taking Donnell, denied giving him a fighting rooster, and passed a voice stress analysis. The case went cold for years, was reopened in 2012 at the request of Donnell’s father, and received renewed attention in 2020 when local detectives partnered with the U.S. Marshals Missing Child Unit for a nationwide follow-up. Investigators say the likely timeframe for whatever happened is narrow and that the person responsible was probably someone Donnell knew.

Does anyone have memories of Donnell, that West 47th Street neighborhood, or information that could help investigators and his family?