Laura Ayala was 13 when she left her Houston apartment on March 10, 2002, around 10:15 p.m. She walked to a nearby gas station to buy a newspaper for a school assignment, successfully purchased it, and was last seen leaving the store. She never returned home. That night her shoes and the newspaper were found scattered in a parking lot between the apartment complex and the gas station.

Witnesses reported a suspicious red and white cargo van near the area at the time. In 2003 investigators linked her case to three men—Walter Alexander Sorto, Edgardo Rafael Cubas, and Eduardo Navarro—who were tied to multiple violent crimes in Houston; investigators later found blood matching Laura’s DNA in a vehicle used by the suspects, but no charges were filed in her disappearance because evidence was judged insufficient. Her case remains unsolved and foul play is suspected.

Did anyone in Houston see Laura or the van that night, or have information that could help finally resolve what happened to her?