Aarone Thompson was six years old when a report to the Aurora, Colorado, Police Department in November 2005 stated she had run away after an argument over a cookie. Described with black hair, brown eyes and a missing top right canine tooth, she was reportedly last seen in a white sweater, gray hooded sweatshirt, pink sweatpants and white sneakers, her hair in a ponytail with a pink rubber band. A large search around the Thompson home turned up nothing.

Investigators soon shifted from a missing-person inquiry after receiving information that Aarone may have been dead for as long as a year and a half before the report and that the runaway story was fabricated. Other children from the home were removed to protective custody, later testified about regular beatings, and said they had been instructed to lie about Aarone. Aarone’s body has never been found. Aaron Thompson was convicted in 2009 on numerous counts including child abuse resulting in death and sentenced to 114 years; a woman of interest, Shely Lowe, died in 2006.

If anyone knew Aarone, the household she lived in, or has information about her whereabouts, please share what is known.