On the evening of January 22, 2010, seven-year-old Patrick Alford vanished from the foster home where he had been placed just three weeks earlier in Starrett City, Brooklyn. He was last seen around 9 p.m. taking out the trash with his foster mother from their 11th-floor apartment. Patrick had a scar on his left eyebrow and was wearing a red t-shirt, blue jeans, a blue jacket, and black and blue Jordan sneakers.

The NYPD mounted an immediate, large-scale investigation: thousands of interviews, searches of roughly 9,000 apartments, and K-9 units that reportedly tracked his scent to a nearby bus stop before the trail went cold. Early suspicion briefly fell on his biological mother, Jennifer Rodriguez, but she was released after passing a lie detector test and no evidence tied her to his disappearance. The case remains open; the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children has issued age-progressed images and a reward is still offered.

Does anyone have information about Patrick’s movements in Starrett City on January 22, 2010, or recall seeing a boy matching his description near the building or the bus stop that night?