Two-year-old Tangena Hussain vanished from a locked car at a Marathon gas station in Detroit on the evening of October 2, 2008. Her mother’s live-in boyfriend, Jamrul Hussain, said he left Tangena inside a red four-door 1997 Geo Prism while he went into the store to buy gum and juice; store surveillance places him inside between about 9:02 and 9:06 p.m. but showed no footage of the parking area. When he returned he reported the child missing, yet did not immediately notify police and instead drove to Northland Mall to pick up Tangena’s mother, Nilufa Begum; a missing-persons report was filed around 9:30 p.m.

Tangena, described as Bangladeshi descent with black hair, brown eyes and a burn scar across her upper lip and chin, wore a brown long-sleeved shirt with a cartoon character, white nylon cargo pants and gold-colored sandals. Extensive searches and neighborhood canvasses turned up no sign of her, and no reliable witness saw her leave the vehicle or be carried away. Jamrul was later convicted of criminal sexual misconduct in an unrelated case and was considered a person of interest in Tangena’s disappearance, but was never formally named a suspect; the FBI offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to her location.

Does anyone have information about Tangena that could help resolve what happened during those few minutes at the gas station?